Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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[...] »Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »