Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »