Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »