Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
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In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »