Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
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An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »