Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »