Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »