Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »