Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »