Teachers can use this site to pull up information on any day of the year, and can use the extensive list of events each search creates to prompt students to find out about their own, their parent's, and their grandparent's involvement. This can help students understand chronology. This page encourages use of the Web in teaching and helps K-12 teachers locate and use resources of the Internet in the classroom. This site features American Memory, a search engine which allows teachers or students to search the collections of the National Digital Library of the Library of Congress. For instance, a search for Benjamin Banneker results in a copy of a letter to Banneker from Thomas Jefferson and a brief summary of Banneker's significance in American history.
Users then can access related terms such as African-American history, mathematicians, and slavery.
Resources for teachers include advice on using primary materials including oral history. Teachers and students can access the main collection areas of the digital library by clicking and holding the directory bar and scrolling through the featured textual collections, photographs, early motion pictures, sound recordings, and maps. Exhibitions drawn from the Library of Congress collections change regularly and often focus on topics related to women's history, biography, and events in U.S. history. This site features information for teachers and students. The Digital Classroom includes methods for teaching with primary sources and advice for students to search the NARA site.