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Why History Day?
History Day is a performance-based academic endeavor that fully supports the California History-Social Science Framework and History/Social Science Content Standards. History Day provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities to apply learned information through authentic assessment in student-outcome products and can easily be integrated into the everyday classroom curriculum.
The History Day program:
- gives a model teaching tool for the classroom, based on active learning
- is easily content-adaptable
- caters to specific needs and interests of students of all different levels and abilities
- supports high academic standards by including varied methods of participation and interdisciplinary approaches
- inherently produces a progressive stream of evaluation of student product for evaluation and assessment
- helps teachers meet the requirements of state history standards
- helps teachers integrate the study of history with other disciplines, including writing, the arts, and other social sciences
- encourages students to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians.
By participating in History Day, students are embarking on an exciting experience that will teach them new skills, strengthen ones they already have, and utilize their many talents. History Day in California is an exciting way to understand history and explore the past. The competition invites students to research topics related to this year’s theme: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History. This broad theme allows students to select and research an endless number of topics, from local to world history, and from ancient time to the recent past.
Getting Started
The theme for 2012 National History Day competition is Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History (pdf).
For additional information about the theme, please review the 2012 National History Day Theme Book (pdf).
It’s extremely important that teachers understand the general NHD rules and the specific rules for each category before students create their entry. Please review the following information:
National History Day Rule Book (pdf).
National History Day - California Rulebook (pdf)
Categories
Two-Dimensional Displays
Documentary
Exhibit
Paper
Performance
Web Site (students must use the NHD web portal at nhd.weebly.com)
Registration – School & Students
To participate in the 2012 Sacramento County History Day, each school must send a completed School Registration Form and a $190.00 fee to SCHD. These registrations must be postmarked by Friday, January 20, 2012.
School Registration Form (pdf)
To participate in the 2012 Sacramento County History Day, each individual or group must send a completed Project Registration Form and a $35.00 fee per student to SCHD. These registrations must be postmarked by Friday, February 10, 2012. Registration forms sent after the due date must pay a $20.00 late fee per student, for a total fee of $55.00 per student.
