History

Day

What is History Day?

• Each year more than half a million students just like you participate in an experience that is a fun and exciting way to look at a historical topic of your choice and create a project based on this year’s theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwRQYLxaYc

What do you do?

• Research primary and secondary sources online, in libraries, archives, museums, conduct oral history interviews, visit historic sites.

• Analyze and interpret your research in comparison with the theme.

• Discover the significance of your topic.• Create a project to display your new knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91Ial4-D2A

Categories and Divisions•Grades 4/5 –2D Display, only (individual or group)

•Junior (grades 6-8) and Senior (grades 9-12) –Documentary (individual or group) –Exhibit (individual or group) –Paper (individual, only) –Performance (individual or group) –Website (individual or group)

Levels of Competition•Classroom •School Site •District •Riverside County History Day 1.Three entries allowed from each district in each category •NHD-CA State Competition 1.Top 3 winners in Grades 4/5 (each category) 2.Top 2 winners in Junior Division (each category) 3.Top 3 winners in Senior Division (each category) •National 1.Top 2 winners in Junior Division (each category) 2.Top 2 winners in Senior Division (each category)

4th and 5th grade students can create an Historical Display

6th grade students can one of five different types of projects

• Documentary•Website• Historical Paper• Presentation• Exhibit

http://www.nhd.org/StudentProjectExamples.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PTcwoeX9Ig

Documentary

• Kill The Indian, Save The Man• http://www.schooltube.com/embed_force/d9b5b07cb81e455cae88/

Website 

http://www.nhd.org/StudentProjectExamples.htm

Historical Paper

Performance

• http://www.schooltube.com/embed_force/86d29befdf964d6e9bbf/

Exhibit

Why is it good for kids to participate?• let’s you focus on your special interests

• supports high academic standards

• integrates history the arts, science, writing, other social sciences – the sky is the limit!

• encourages students to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians.

• Opens up opportunities in ways we couldn’t have imagined http://www.pe.com/articles/history-661046-rachel-war.html

It’s fun!

What students say about History Day

• http://www.youtube.com/embed/rHjp97oaKKs

I’m interested….now what? Think about the theme

Search up some topics to see if they fit the theme or see your teacher for ideas

Start researching and keep track of the information you gather

Decide on what type of project you are going to create

Follow the guidelines and rules

School site level project

Statelevelproject

Want More Info?

• National History Day website www.nhd.org

• California National History Day website www.nhdca.org

• California National History Day Facebook www.facebook.com/HistoryDayCalifornia

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PTcwoeX9Ig

• Twitter @NationalHistory

Great places to search for topics• NHD Theme Info @ www.nhd.org/AnnualTheme.htm or

www.nhd.org/themebook.htm

• RUSD Teaching American History Grant www.rusdlearns.net/mgull/rusdtah/cms_page/view/1255006

• Chicago Metro History Education Center www.chicagohistoryfair.org/history-fair/history-fair-a-nhd-theme/nhd-theme.html

Commonly asked questions

• Can kids work in pairs or small groups? On some of the projects- yes.

• Is it like a science fair project only it’s historical? You can think of it that way in a very broad sense, but it is much more! The depth of historical research makes it very different.

• Other questions?