Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »