Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »