Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »