Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »