Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »