Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »