Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »