What an incredible project   Jodi Sabra  -- I am passing that along to a colleague right now. Very creative use of primary sources.

  Jodi Sabra, do you have any advice for those of us who don't see an arrow, but rather a login screen that requires a code from the teacher?

I saw something this morning from the Merriam-Webster twitter account that's related to words, but in this case, they were asking for favorite words and their meanings from non-native English speakers. One of the words was perfect for me! In Japanese, the word tsundoku means acquiring books and letting them pile up without reading them!  

Same here,   Jodi Sabra  .  I got the message that Mary did. I would love to see your student's work.  I think the project is Brilliant.  I was especially excited to hear that your 6th graders were searching LOC.gov like pros. 

I can't believe I spent so many years only teaching teachers how to search and not encouraging them to do exactly what you did---teach the students to search! In the last 3 years, we have been making stabs at this thanks to NHD emphasis on LOC and some work the TPS Eastern Region program has done with pre-service teachers at VA Tech.  Those grad students IMMEDIATELY saw the connection and asked, "How can we teach our students to access their own primary sources at LOC.gov.?" One student compared LOC.gov to other databases and archives he used in historical research and said, "Many of the other research databases are aligned to collegiate-level or individualized research. The Library of Congress user interface and tools allow younger audiences to grapple with the kinds of sources that actual historians would be dealing with."  Andrew Grant, 2022.

I would be interested in knowing how you introduced LOC searching skills to your 6th graders. This is a project with lots and lots of potential applications! I remember 6th graders' reaction to being introduced to LOC searching in   Melissa Lawson's class that used primary sources as a Q-Focus for a QFT lesson at the beginning of the Pandemic.  One asked, "Can I use this in other classes?" Another one told us, "I wish I had known about this before I started my NHD project!"

So many ways to expand on your project!

This is ingenious! It seems so simple, but it is really deep and meaningful. You are such a thoughtful teacher, I just love to hear your ideas, and I am so grateful that you are a part of the UArts TPS team!

The links work and are SO worth checking out! Amazing work, Jodi. 

Congratulations to these students.  This project is a wonderful example of applying so many thinking skills and is applicable to all curriculum areas.  It would be a perfect interdisciplinary project.

I am so thrilled that you turned this into a post!  This project is brilliant.  Maybe if we do a Local Collection Course in Summer 2024 this can be the project for educators to make and model.

Oh, how I love it when a teaching idea gets this much buzz,   Jodi Sabra ! Thank you for changing those links. All is working perfectly now.

I wonder if I could ask you to use the green SHARE button to share this post to the Primary Sources in the ELA Classroom group. (You would have to join that group first to make it show up in your share-to list.) I think this strategy would be of particular interest to Language Arts teachers of all levels. 

Also, since I'm always looking for ways that teachers could pre-plan primary source lessons for substitute teachers, I was excited to see your suggestion to that effect. Because this is an ongoing project, you can trust the students to keep on working without extra instruction. I'm even picturing students demonstrating to the substitute teacher how to search loc.gov!