Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
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Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »