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 [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
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 [...] »