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    As a school librarian, I am so tired of hearing from science teachers, “Primary sources?  Those are for history, not science”.  Every time I come across a use for primary sources for science, I do a little happy dance and immediately contact the science teachers for whom my find is appropriate.    Jacqueline Katz   the 2022-2023 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress recently communicated a couple of wonderful finds posted by   Danna Bell  in Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators blog.

    Jacqueline suggests launching units  with primary sources on Tracking the Epicenter and nuclear tests done in 1946, dubbed Operation Crossover.  Check them out, bet your science teachers will take a different view about primary sources and science.

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      Susan Allen , I have my students identify primary source lesson planning ideas in ALL the content areas (including fine arts) for just this reason. Science and math teachers can be hard sells, but once they see the relevance, I think they are easy to convert. I am thrilled that LC has dedicated fellows like   Jacqueline Katz  on the case.

    Thanks for posting this,  Susan Allen ! I've really enjoyed   Jacqueline Katz 's posts this year as an AEF Fellow at the Library. The blog posts give science teachers some really solid ideas about resources at the Library and how they might be used. Following my own stint as a science teacher in residence at the Library, I developed poster presentations at two conferences on this topic: In what ways might science teachers leverage primary sources in their classrooms and curricula? I proposed a framework for teaching with primary sources in science classrooms and laid out some ideas for interdisciplinary teaching with primary sources. I hope these might be helpful!

    Thanks for sharing those resources.  I will be sure to pass them along!

    Thank you so much for your kind feedback on the blogs! My entire experience at the LOC has been eye-opening. Once I dug in, it was hard to not see the connections between primary sources, scientific content and scientific thinking! I am so excited to see what my students think when I get back in the classroom in September.

      Trey Smith  that poster is a great resource for science teachers! 

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