Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Excite students by introducing them to primary sources that answer questions [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
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
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »