Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »