Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »