Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »