Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »