Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
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Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »