Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »