Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »