Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
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 [...] »
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 [...] »