Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »