Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
[...] »Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
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 students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »