Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
[...] »
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »