Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »