Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »