Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »