Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »