Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »