Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »