Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
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, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »