Library of Congress: "Primary Sources" Summer Teacher Institute

Recently, I was accepted to the Library of Congress's Teacher Institute geared toward teaching educators how to incorporate primary sources into their classrooms. I was so excited when I received the press release announcing this honor. It read:

Screenshot borrowed from:
 http://ccs.k12.nc.us/2015/06/11/local-teacher-receives-national-honor/

I learned so much from this institute and I encourage all teachers who are interested in primary sources to go online and apply at www.loc.gov.

Here are some photos from my trip. I will upload some of the strategies I learned later, but for now I'll just share the fun stuff.

Visiting the Main Reading Room featured
in one of favorite movies, National Treasure

Walking around DC Self-Guided Tour

Some of the other participants- My new friends!

Super exclusive tour of the Main Reading
Room and a behind the scenes tour of the
card catalog and book stacks