Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »