Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »