Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »