Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »