Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »