Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »