Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
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
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Use this guide developed by PBS and the Antiques Roadshow to teach [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »