Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
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In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »