Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
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, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »