Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »