Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
[...] »Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »