Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »