Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Teaching in Action
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »