Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
[...] »Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
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 [...] »