Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »