Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »