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November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post…

Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members of, such as a school, neighborhood, town, or city. Maps from the Library’s collections offer teachers a range of tools for helping students see, think about, and form questions to develop a sense of place.

For example, in the primary source set, Community: People and Places, a panoramic map gives students a particular perspective of a city.

Sometimes referred to as “bird’s-eye views,” panoramic maps are great for helping students see different landscapes, street patterns, and prominent buildings. These engaging visual maps can be especially meaningful to young learners. Browse maps by state to locate panoramic maps closest to where your students live.

How teachers use panoramic maps will vary depending what aspect of community they want to explore; however, a few ideas might include:

• Identify and trace waterways shown on a map. What do students notice about the waterway? What do they see on the map that is close to the waterway? Why might it be located there?
• Encourage students to look at street patterns. What clues can students find that tell them which streets have homes or buildings? Where are these streets located on the map?
• Project a contemporary map of the same city or town that the panoramic map shows. Ask: What do they notice about how the place has changed over time? What is different and what is similar?
• Older elementary students might spend time with the map key. Encourage students to look for patterns and ask questions about what types of institutions are included in the key, what surprises them, and why.

The “Additional Resources” section of the Community: People and Places primary source set includes Sanborn Maps, another type of map that could be helpful for exploring different aspects of community and place.

The Sanborn map collection includes large-scale maps of commercial, industrial, and residential sections of thousands of cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps show the shape and construction of homes, commercial buildings, and factories as well as names of streets and property boundaries. You can search the collection by state and then by city or county.  A fascinating use of the Sanborn maps is to explore change over time. This essay details several examples and might inspire ideas to modify for elementary-age students.

If you are looking for maps that go beyond a local orientation of community, the Cities and Towns Collection features maps that detail places throughout the world. These maps might be helpful as students start to orient to community in a state, national, or even global context.

If you use maps from these collections with your students, we would love to hear about it! Please share your experiences and teaching recommendations in the comments.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps | Teaching with the Library

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Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps

November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post…

Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members of, such as a school, neighborhood, town, or city. Maps from the Library’s collections offer teachers a range of tools for helping students see, think about, and form questions to develop a sense of place.

For example, in the primary source set, Community: People and Places, a panoramic map gives students a particular perspective of a city.

Sometimes referred to as “bird’s-eye views,” panoramic maps are great for helping students see different landscapes, street patterns, and prominent buildings. These engaging visual maps can be especially meaningful to young learners. Browse maps by state to locate panoramic maps closest to where your students live.

How teachers use panoramic maps will vary depending what aspect of community they want to explore; however, a few ideas might include:

• Identify and trace waterways shown on a map. What do students notice about the waterway? What do they see on the map that is close to the waterway? Why might it be located there?
• Encourage students to look at street patterns. What clues can students find that tell them which streets have homes or buildings? Where are these streets located on the map?
• Project a contemporary map of the same city or town that the panoramic map shows. Ask: What do they notice about how the place has changed over time? What is different and what is similar?
• Older elementary students might spend time with the map key. Encourage students to look for patterns and ask questions about what types of institutions are included in the key, what surprises them, and why.

The “Additional Resources” section of the Community: People and Places primary source set includes Sanborn Maps, another type of map that could be helpful for exploring different aspects of community and place.

The Sanborn map collection includes large-scale maps of commercial, industrial, and residential sections of thousands of cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps show the shape and construction of homes, commercial buildings, and factories as well as names of streets and property boundaries. You can search the collection by state and then by city or county.  A fascinating use of the Sanborn maps is to explore change over time. This essay details several examples and might inspire ideas to modify for elementary-age students.

If you are looking for maps that go beyond a local orientation of community, the Cities and Towns Collection features maps that detail places throughout the world. These maps might be helpful as students start to orient to community in a state, national, or even global context.

If you use maps from these collections with your students, we would love to hear about it! Please share your experiences and teaching recommendations in the comments.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps | Teaching with the Library

#community #frankfortMap1871 #issn26916916 #kentucky #libraryOfCongress #libraryOfCongressBlog #maps #newMexico #place #sanbornMaps #santaFe #teachingWithMaps

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November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post…

Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members of, such as a school, neighborhood, town, or city. Maps from the Library’s collections offer teachers a range of tools for helping students see, think about, and form questions to develop a sense of place.

For example, in the primary source set, Community: People and Places, a panoramic map gives students a particular perspective of a city.

Sometimes referred to as “bird’s-eye views,” panoramic maps are great for helping students see different landscapes, street patterns, and prominent buildings. These engaging visual maps can be especially meaningful to young learners. Browse maps by state to locate panoramic maps closest to where your students live.

How teachers use panoramic maps will vary depending what aspect of community they want to explore; however, a few ideas might include:

• Identify and trace waterways shown on a map. What do students notice about the waterway? What do they see on the map that is close to the waterway? Why might it be located there?
• Encourage students to look at street patterns. What clues can students find that tell them which streets have homes or buildings? Where are these streets located on the map?
• Project a contemporary map of the same city or town that the panoramic map shows. Ask: What do they notice about how the place has changed over time? What is different and what is similar?
• Older elementary students might spend time with the map key. Encourage students to look for patterns and ask questions about what types of institutions are included in the key, what surprises them, and why.

The “Additional Resources” section of the Community: People and Places primary source set includes Sanborn Maps, another type of map that could be helpful for exploring different aspects of community and place.

The Sanborn map collection includes large-scale maps of commercial, industrial, and residential sections of thousands of cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps show the shape and construction of homes, commercial buildings, and factories as well as names of streets and property boundaries. You can search the collection by state and then by city or county.  A fascinating use of the Sanborn maps is to explore change over time. This essay details several examples and might inspire ideas to modify for elementary-age students.

If you are looking for maps that go beyond a local orientation of community, the Cities and Towns Collection features maps that detail places throughout the world. These maps might be helpful as students start to orient to community in a state, national, or even global context.

If you use maps from these collections with your students, we would love to hear about it! Please share your experiences and teaching recommendations in the comments.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps | Teaching with the Library

#community #frankfortMap1871 #issn26916916 #kentucky #libraryOfCongress #libraryOfCongressBlog #maps #newMexico #place #sanbornMaps #santaFe #teachingWithMaps

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Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps

November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post…

Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members of, such as a school, neighborhood, town, or city. Maps from the Library’s collections offer teachers a range of tools for helping students see, think about, and form questions to develop a sense of place.

For example, in the primary source set, Community: People and Places, a panoramic map gives students a particular perspective of a city.

Sometimes referred to as “bird’s-eye views,” panoramic maps are great for helping students see different landscapes, street patterns, and prominent buildings. These engaging visual maps can be especially meaningful to young learners. Browse maps by state to locate panoramic maps closest to where your students live.

How teachers use panoramic maps will vary depending what aspect of community they want to explore; however, a few ideas might include:

• Identify and trace waterways shown on a map. What do students notice about the waterway? What do they see on the map that is close to the waterway? Why might it be located there?
• Encourage students to look at street patterns. What clues can students find that tell them which streets have homes or buildings? Where are these streets located on the map?
• Project a contemporary map of the same city or town that the panoramic map shows. Ask: What do they notice about how the place has changed over time? What is different and what is similar?
• Older elementary students might spend time with the map key. Encourage students to look for patterns and ask questions about what types of institutions are included in the key, what surprises them, and why.

The “Additional Resources” section of the Community: People and Places primary source set includes Sanborn Maps, another type of map that could be helpful for exploring different aspects of community and place.

The Sanborn map collection includes large-scale maps of commercial, industrial, and residential sections of thousands of cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps show the shape and construction of homes, commercial buildings, and factories as well as names of streets and property boundaries. You can search the collection by state and then by city or county.  A fascinating use of the Sanborn maps is to explore change over time. This essay details several examples and might inspire ideas to modify for elementary-age students.

If you are looking for maps that go beyond a local orientation of community, the Cities and Towns Collection features maps that detail places throughout the world. These maps might be helpful as students start to orient to community in a state, national, or even global context.

If you use maps from these collections with your students, we would love to hear about it! Please share your experiences and teaching recommendations in the comments.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps | Teaching with the Library

#community #frankfortMap1871 #issn26916916 #kentucky #libraryOfCongress #libraryOfCongressBlog #maps #newMexico #place #sanbornMaps #santaFe #teachingWithMaps

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)

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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.

Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.

Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.

“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.

Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)

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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.

Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.

Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.

“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.

Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)

NPR News

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.

Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.

Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.

“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.

Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)

NPR News

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.

Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.

Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.

“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.

Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)

NPR News

The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.

Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.

Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.

“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.

Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history

#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM

every congress person who isn’t immediately saying “fuck no don’t clean out your desk, Trump has no more power to fire you than some drunk rando on the street does” re: Carla Hayden should be subjected to both primaries and gallic wildcat labor action.

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every congress person who isn’t immediately saying “fuck no don’t clean out your desk, Trump has no more power to fire you than some drunk rando on the street does” re: Carla Hayden should be subjected to both primaries and gallic wildcat labor action.

#trump #librarian #nationalLibrarian #MAGA #LibraryOfCongress #labor #bossnapping #wildcatstrike #fascism #elonMusk #fascists #Nazi #CarlaHayden #libraries

every congress person who isn’t immediately saying “fuck no don’t clean out your desk, Trump has no more power to fire you than some drunk rando on the street does” re: Carla Hayden should be subjected to both primaries and gallic wildcat labor action.

#trump #librarian #nationalLibrarian #MAGA #LibraryOfCongress #labor #bossnapping #wildcatstrike #fascism #elonMusk #fascists #Nazi #CarlaHayden #libraries

every congress person who isn’t immediately saying “fuck no don’t clean out your desk, Trump has no more power to fire you than some drunk rando on the street does” re: Carla Hayden should be subjected to both primaries and gallic wildcat labor action.

#trump #librarian #nationalLibrarian #MAGA #LibraryOfCongress #labor #bossnapping #wildcatstrike #fascism #elonMusk #fascists #Nazi #CarlaHayden #libraries