Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
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 [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »