Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »