Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
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Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »