Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
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 [...] »
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, [...] »