Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Analyzing a massive primary source? Divide it up! Teachers at the [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
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Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »