Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »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 [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »