Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
[...] »What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »