Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »