Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »