Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
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 [...] »