Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »