National History Day in Nevada

Rights and Responsibilities in History2013-2014 Program Year

WCSD Social Studies Professional Development Day

Introduction to History Day

Time Topic Speaker/Presenter

9:10-9:20 Warm Up: Skills You Want Your Students to Leave Your Class With?

Lindsey Clewell

9:20-9:40 What is NHD?• History Day Works!• History Day Website & Our Website• Northern Nevada Contest• Judging the Categories and the rules of

History Day

 Christine Hull

9:40-10:00

Rights & Responsibilities in History Unpacking the Theme Brainstorm possible topics

Sue Davis

10:00-10:10

Questions and Exit Pass Christine Hull

Introductions

Christine Hull-Nevada State Coordinator of History Day (NV Department of Education)

Sue Davis- Northern Nevada Regional Coordinator of History Day (Washoe County School District-Retired)

Lindsey Clewell-History Day Teacher (Gifted and Talented Program-Mendive Middle School)

History Day Contest Rules/Program Overview

What is History Day?

What skills do you want your students to leave your class with?

History Day Works!

Our website- http://nevadanhd.weebly.com/

History Day Website- http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/

School Contest Form Please fill this out (one

per school) Return to Christine by

December 20th If you are the only

classroom in your school, the classroom/school contest will be the same date

Schools with more than one teacher should consider having a classroom and school contest

School:  

Participating Teachers:Please indicate with an * which teacher in your school will be the main contact for this year’s History Day Program

 

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Dates of Contests:

Classroom Contests

School Contests

Registration for State

Contest

State Contest

National Contest

 

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March 31, 2014, Online

April 26, 2014, UNR

June 15-19, College Park, Maryland

History Day InternsIf you are interested in having an intern assigned to your school please indicate what times of the day/week you plan to work on History Day in your classroom(s) so that we can schedule interns.

 

Program Overview

Divisions: ◦Junior Division: Grades 6-8◦Senior Division: Grades 9-12

Contest Categories:◦Paper (individual only)◦Exhibit (individual or group)◦Performance (individual or group)◦Documentary (individual or group)◦Website (individual or group)

How Entry will be Judged

Historical Quality= 60%Relation to theme= 20%Clarity of Presentation= 20%

Rules for All Categories

Must relate clearly to Annual ThemeStudent may participate in only 1 entry

per yearGroup exhibit size is 2-5 studentsAll entries must be ORIGINAL (may not

revise a project from previous years to fit new theme)

Students are responsible for research, design, and creation of project but may receive help from & advice from teachers and parents on mechanical aspects.

Rules for All Categories

Equipment and set-up is responsibility of student.

Students will have a discussion with judges and be prepared to explain in detail their project.

Prohibited Materials- Anything dangerous such as weapons, firearms, animals, organisms, plants

Title of project must be clearly visible on all written materials

Rules for All Categories

All entries must have a :◦Title page◦Process paper in 500 words or less describing

how the research was conducted and process of creating project

◦Annotated bibliography-each source must explain how source was used and how it helped to understand the topic. Primary and secondary sources must be

separate in the bibliography Proper citation format and consistent (MLA or

Turabian)

Rules for all Categories

Plagiarism- failure to cite information is plagiarism and may result in disqualification

Paper

Length: no less than 1500 words and not to exceed more than 2500 words.◦2500 words excludes: notes, annotated

bibliography, illustration captions, and supplemental materials (appendix)

Citations within the paper are requiredPapers must be typed and turned in

electronically as one filePages must be double spaced, numbered,

& stapled in the top left corner (not in a binder).

Exhibit

Size requirements- no larger than 40 inches wide, 30 inches deep, & 6 feet high.

No set design of exhibit (not always a 3 board presentation)

Media devices must not run for more than 3 minutes and limited to 500 words.

Text on exhibit limited to 500 words, includes:◦ Titles, subtitles, captions, graphs, timeline, media

materials ◦ Not included in the 500 word count is brief citations or

credits for illustrations or quotations

Performance

Must be entirely student createdMay not exceed 10 minutes

◦Allowed 5 minutes to set up and 5 minutes to remove any props needed for performance

May use slides, tape recorders, computers, or other media with performance.

May rent or make costumes

Documentary

May not exceed 10 minutes◦Allowed 5 minutes to set up and 5

minutes to remove equipmentDocumentary must be narrated by

studentsMay use photographs, films, recorded

music and provide proper citationDocumentaries must be uploaded

through SmugMug

Web Site

Must be constructed using the NHD web site editor no more than 100MB of file space

May use photographs, graphics, video, recorded music but must be properly cited

Contain no more than 1200 student-composed words (code used to build website does not count)

Multimedia clips may not last more than 45 seconds

Student must narrate any audioMust submit the URL in advance

Getting your students started

Primary and Secondary Sources

Start them off right by teaching them how to vet resources and what a Primary Source is.

The annotated bibliography requires students to distinguish between primary and secondary sources.

See Research Section

Annotated Bibliography

All entries required an annotated Bibliography

An annotation summarizes the source and describes how that source was useful to the project.  Keep a working annotated bibliography during the research process. Lack of annotations can significantly damage a student's evaluation in the competition.

Students must include both secondary and primary sources in their research. ◦ Handout- History Fair Notes…

resources

Chicago History Day http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/

Bibliography/citations◦http://easybib.com/◦http://www.bibme.org/◦http://citationmachine.net/index2.php

Nevada History Resources◦http://www.onlinenevada.org/◦http://nevadaculture.org/◦https://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/

specoll/

It’s Not About the CompetitionTeacher Inservice Program

◦One Inservice credit for attending the various events throughout the year

History Day Interns◦M.A. & PhD Students in History◦Education Pre-Service teachers

Day at the Museum/Library◦Historical Society & Special

Collections @ UNR

Save the Date(s)

•October 2nd, Location TBD 3:30-6:30

Fall Teacher Workshop*

•Saturday, February 8 @ 8:30-12:00 (UNR)

Day at the Library/Museum*

•February and March

Classroom/School Contests

•Saturday, April 26 @ 8:00am-3:00pm (UNR)

Northern Nevada State Competition*

•Saturday, May 10th 9:00-3:00 @ TBD

Northern Nevada Winner's Workshop*

•May 20 Deadline

National History Day Contest Registration

• June 15-19

National History Day Contest, College Park, MD

It’s Not About the CompetitionProgram Partners

◦Nevada Humanities◦NV State Museums & Historical

Society◦State Library & Archives◦KNPB◦UNR-History Department, College

of Education◦UNR Library-Special Collections◦Washoe County School District◦And many more…