Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »