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Focus on Math, Technology and Engineering

The Library of Congress offers a wealth of primary sources specifically designed for teaching math, technology, and engineering. Through its Teaching with Primary Sources program, administered in Tennessee by Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Historic Preservation, educators can engage students in inquiry-based learning using historical documents. Noteworthy collections include the Historic American Buildings Survey and the papers of significant inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers. Explore lesson plans and resources to enhance your curriculum and inform students about these critical fields.

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Focus on Math, Technology and Engineering

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  1. Focus on Math, Technology and Engineering Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources

  2. The Library’s Web site contains plenty of primary sources for the study of math, technology and engineering. The Library of Congress is not just for history teachers.

  3. TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCESis a program ofthe Library of Congress,and is administered in Tennessee by the Center for Historic Preservation atMiddle Tennessee State University.

  4. TPS’s Mission: • To promote and facilitate the use of the primary sources available at the Library of Congress Web site • To help educators engage students in inquiry through the use of primary sources

  5. www.loc.gov The best place to start searching the Library of Congress Web site is AMERICAN MEMORY.

  6. Primary source collections in American Memory useful for teaching math:

  7. Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present (Also known as HABS/HAER/HALS)

  8. Lesson Plan: Finding the Area and Volume of Buildings Using Architectural Drawings

  9. Map Collections

  10. Lesson Activity:Battle of Nashville, 1864

  11. Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939

  12. AND Baseball Cards, 1887-1914 Lesson Idea: Using Baseball Statistics to Teach Math

  13. Primary source collections in American Memory useful for teaching technology and engineering:

  14. The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939

  15. Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry

  16. Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

  17. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress

  18. Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919

  19. The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827

  20. Also,Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division’s First 100 Years Section: Science, Medicine, Exploration, and Invention

  21. Lesson Activity: Punched Cards to IBM: Early Inventions and Technology

  22. TO FIND THESE LESSON PLANS, ACTIVITIES, AND IDEAS: • Visit the Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee Web site! www.mtsu.edu/tps • Click on “Lesson Ideas & Units”

  23. Find more resources: • Search Today in History • Search Prints & Photographs • Browse math-related features on the Teachers Page • Browse by topic: Science, Technology & Business

  24. SEARCH TERMS: • mathematics • arithmetic • Lesson activity: Learning Decimals and Fractions with a 19th-century Currency Table

  25. Search Terms: • computer • diagram • apparatus • patent • mechanics • technology

  26. SEARCH TERMS: • almanac • astronomy • invention • innovation • algebra • geometry

  27. SEARCH TERMS: • graph • chart • calculator • equation Try more search terms from the Teachers Page.

  28. CONTACT INFORMATION: Dr. Stacey Graham sgraham@mtsu.edu Project Coordinator MTSU Box 80 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (615) 898-2947 (615) 494-8783

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