Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
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[...] »Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »