Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
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Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »