Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »