Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
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 [...] »