Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »