Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »