Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »