Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »