Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »