Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
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 [...] »