Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »