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Correction: The 2008 National Book Festival will take place on September 27 not September 28.

Visit our Historic Baseball Resources page where you can learn more about the song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” find links to historic baseball cards and see resources that teachers can use in the classroom.

The 2008 National Book Festival will take place on September 28, 2008 on the National Mall. Visit the book festival website to see cybercasts of previous festivals, link to our Young Readers Tool kit and in late summer see who will be joining us this year.

Looking for ways to combine primary sources and poetry? Our new activity Making Connections through Poetry: Finding the Heart in History allows students to review and analyze primary sources and then synthesize the information and create poetry based on what they have learned. Students can print out their poems and the primary sources on which they are based and teachers can compile the poems and make chapter books that can be shared with students, other teachers and parents.

Starting at 11am on April 12th the Library of Congress will introduce its new dynamic experience for visitors. Come to see our new exhibits and our interactive activities. Teachers will be able to learn about our lesson plans and other activities that they can use to bring the experience of visiting the Library into the classroom. We look forward to seeing you at our opening day festivities which will include music, crafts for kids and the opportunity to meet the Library’s newest Living Legacies.

After you visit the Library look for teacher resources on www.myLOC.gov. There will be five new multimedia activities to engage young people and get help them to think critically about primary sources from the Library’s collections. There will also be teacher-tested standards-based lesson plans to provide educators with the tools they need to integrate artifacts from the exhibitions into their curriculum.

Visit our Library of Congress Poetry reference resources page to find resources you can use to celebrate poetry in your classroom. Read poems written by Presidents of the United States. Learn about your state poet laureate and the current poet laureate of the United States, Charles Simic. See webcasts of poetry events that took place at the Library of Congress. Link to our Lyrical Legacies exercise and find ways to integrate poetry throughout the curriculum.

Today’s students have access to more information than ever before. They are more skilled at using computers and other digital devices to access their world. How can teachers work with these “digital natives” and figure out how to interact with these students on their level? The Kluge Center is sponsoring a series of presentations on “digital natives” starting with Edith Ackerman looking at how the young people of today think, learn and play.

Dr. Ackerman’s presentation will be on April 7th at 4pm in the Montpelier Room, James Madison Building of the Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public. Other speakers in this series include Steven Berlin Johnson on May 12th, Michael Wesch on June 23rd and Douglas Rushoff on June 30th.

This new site, for parents, teachers and students in grades 4-6 was created to inspire young people to “explore new worlds” through reading and to promote literacy in all types of learning, including books, periodicals and cartoons. Your students may enjoy watching the featured Webcast, which showcases local poets and Washington D.C. students read some of their favorite poems. Watch this site - more resources are coming.

The Library has expanded its home page to better organize and highlight the many programs, events and collections available to the public at no charge through its Web site, as well as a new section that gives users an easy search path to popularly requested topics and collections.

The Library of Congress has collected a vast array of original materials concerning the attacks of September 11, 2001. This Today in History entry provides links to the collected content. Use this material with your students as you memorialize the anniversary of this historic day.

This online exhibition provides eyewitness accounts and commentaries regarding events surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001. The exhibit includes works by professional photographers, amateur photographers, children, art students, and architects, and also includes comic book art and political cartoons that tell a compelling story. Use this material with your students as you memorialize the anniversary of this historic day.

This "ready to download and use" Primary Source Set includes maps, images, documents and a sound file to help teach about the age of exploration, specifically, the contributions and interactions of Hispanic peoples in America.

This site is a good starting place for finding resources from across the Library of Congress' Web site that you can share with your students during National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Visit this inter-agency portal to find the rich resources the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have provided to pay tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.

Not only will students learn the answer to this question, but they can explore wonderful images of "old time" roller coasters, read fun facts about this contraption, find web sites about roller coasters outside of the Library of Congress, and find books for further research from the site's bibliography.

Visit this preview of the Teachers Page with a new look and easier searching. Please let us know what you think about these changes.

As you plan your Constitution Day activities, don't overlook this offering from the Library's THOMAS Web site. You will find links to primary source documents, teacher resources, links to appropriate content from America's Library (for younger students), and book suggestions for elementary - adult readers.

Are you making your teaching plans for Constitution Day? This Primary Source Set, which includes images, documents, maps, sound files and analysis tools to teach about the United States Constitution, is ready to download and use in your classroom.

This guide links to a wide variety of Library of Congress material associated with the Spanish-American War, including manuscripts, maps, broadsides, photographs, prints, sheet music, and films, as well as external Web sites focusing on the Spanish-American War. This site also includes and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers. Again, teachers will find the site useful both for teaching about Hispanic Heritage and the Spanish-American War.

This guide links to a wide variety of Library of Congress material associated with the Mexican War (1846-1848), including manuscripts, maps, broadsides, pictures, sheet music, books, and government documents, as well as external Web sites focusing on the Mexican War. It also includes a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers. Teachers will find the site useful for teaching about Hispanic Heritage as well as the Mexican War.

Julia Lathrop, an American social worker at the turn of the 20th century, was a pioneer in the field of child welfare. Her career and significance as a political force is the subject of this lecture by Cecelia Tichi, Chair of Modern Culture in the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. Tichi's dramatic delivery style and use of Library of Congress images will engage your students in this relevant topic.