Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »