Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »