Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
[...] »Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »