Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »