Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »