Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »