Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »