Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »