National History Day Projects

USING THE DAILY REFLECTOR IMAGE COLLECTION AS A RESOURCE National History Day Projects

Overview
About National History Day
Project Process
Examples
Themes and the Daily Reflector Image Collection
Hands-On-Activity

HTTP://WWW.NATIONALHISTORYDAY.ORG /
About National History Day

Project based curriculum and instruction
Engages students
Research
Writing
Product development
Technology use
Personal skills

Choose a historic topic
Conduct primary and secondary source research
Analyze and interpret your sources
Draw a conclusion about the significance of your topic
Present your work

In the Spring
Enter local NHD contest
Winners to State NHD contest
State winners go on to the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park in June.
Video about NHD from the History Channel
http://link.history.com/services/player/bcpid1785324716?bclid=1785352303&bctid=1788865028

Project Process

Getting Started

Rules and Evaluation
Information about creating an entry, the rules, and evaluation materials is found here:
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/CreatingEntry.htm

A DOCUMENTARY
AND A PERFORMANCE
2009 THEME- THE INDIVIDUAL IN HISTORY: ACTIONS AND LEGACIES
Examples

The video was created for the Junior Group Documentary.

Laura Holmes presenting "By Deeds Not Words, Alice Paul's Militant Fight For Women's Suffrage"

Examples
Documentary URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEoPyA_qTtk
Performance URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj6f6hKsQPM

NATIONAL HISTORY DAY PROJECTS ARE BASED UPON THEMES IN HISTORY.
THE DAILY REFLECTOR IMAGES REFLECT THEMES IN LIFE FROM 1949-1967
Themes and the Daily Reflector Image Collection

Daily Reflector Images
National History Day
Community Organizations & Celebrations
Economics
Education
Medicine & Health Care
Natural Disasters & the Environment
Politics & Government
Social & Family Life
Urban Development
2010 Innovation in History: Impact and Change
2009 The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies
Themes

Hands-On-Activity
Narrowing topics aligned to the NHD theme and the Daily Reflector Image Collection
Using the process suggested by the NHD organization, produce topics for NHD projects that incorporate primary source images from the Daily Reflector Image Collection
Work individually to produce two narrowed topics
Formula Template

Formula
Example
Theme:
Interest:
Topic:
Issue:
Theme: Rights and Responsibilities in History
Interest: Native Americans
Topic: Treaty Rights
Issue: 1788 Fort Schuyler Treaty
Process for Narrowing Topics Based On Theme

Formula Template
Theme: 2010 Innovation in History: Impact and Change
Interest:
Topic:
Issue:
Image URLs from Daily Reflector Image Collection:

Video for Students on Defining Thesis Statement

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu	385
http://www.slideshare.net	8
http://digitest	1
http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com	1
http://www.edmodo.com	1

National History Day Projects

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