Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »