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National History Day Contest Collaboration

Nicole DeLuca

This year’s theme is Leadership and Legacy and provides ample opportunities for the students to create their projects

What kind of project can they create?

Can be individual or with a group (up to 5 students)

Paper (only individual) Documentary Website Performance Exhibit

2 move on from each category to the state competition (for a possible 36 entries from our county)

The Process Paper A process paper is a description of no more than 500 words

explaining how you conducted your research and created and developed your entry. You must conclude your description with an explanation of the relationship of your topic to the contest theme.

A title page is required as the first page of written material in every category. Your title page must include only the title of your entry, your name(s) and the contest division and category in which you are entered. Do not include your age, grade or school name.

The first section should explain how you chose your topic.

The second section should explain how you conducted your research.

The third section should explain how you selected your presentation category and created your project.

The fourth section should explain how your project relates to the NHD theme.

Why participate in this?

Social Studies

1. Teaches History

• Builds an understanding that history is not static and contains multiple perspectives

2. Engages Students

• Excites students by asking them to choose a topic and explore resources

3. Energizes the Curriculum

• Provides a framework for hands-on, student-centered learning

4. Promotes High Academic Standards

• Assists teachers and schools in meeting educational standards by offering a portfolio-building and outcome-based activity

5. Encourages Literacy

• Adjusts their reading for different types of print and non-print texts (including fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works)

6. Enhances Assessment

• Provides a multilayered performance-based assessment tool

7. Teaches Critical Thinking

• Promotes life skills, analytical skills, comparative perspectives and models of critical judgment essential for work in any field

8. Inspires Curiosity

• Ignites student interest in learning about history by integrating social studies, art, sciences, literature, language, and music into their presentations

9. Recognizes the Student Strengths

• Allows students to become experts

10. Activates Civic Engagement

Encourages students to become involved in their communities

Recurring Standards

LAFS

Timeline for this:

School Competition:

Should have a winner from each category (9 total) decided by the end of the 2nd week in February.

Schools are free to determine winners themselves, if you would like a judge let me know

Make sure the winners you are sending on to the district competition have followed all the rules!

Students will fill out registration form with all signatures and move on to the county fair

Florida History Fair website, associated with the Florida History Museum hosts the state competition

http://www.floridahistoryfair.com/index.cfm

http://nhd.org/

How students will be evaluated

Several resources that can be shared with students and used to help them with their projects

Questions?

EOC Information terona@lake.k12.fl.us

Testing dates:

Semester courses ending in January will be January 12-15

Year-long courses and semester courses ending in June will be June 1-4

There are test item specs:

http://www.lake.k12.fl.us/page/585

Blueprints: Need to be enhanced…

November 20th C2 Training

Other Issues or points to focus

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