Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »