Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »