Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
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The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
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 [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »