About this PD

The Library of Congress hosts free, on-site three-day professional development workshops in Washington, D.C., where educators will learn and practice strategies for using primary sources with K-12 students.

In each session, Library of Congress education specialists model a variety of hands-on, inquiry-based teaching strategies for using primary sources to engage students, build critical thinking skills, construct knowledge, and launch original research. Activities will feature some of the millions of historical artifacts from the Library’s collections – photographs, prints, manuscripts, maps, multimedia, and more – which are digitized and freely available online.