Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »