Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »