And theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. So we have had conflict and compromise, taking a stand, all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So they have been choosing topics that range from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. They are choosing early fascinating and interesting topics. And then they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. There is also a paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. And then they enter at a local level competition, students who win move up to the state level of
Primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph nd tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. Also a paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. And they enter at a local level, students who win move up to the state level of competition, and then the winners come here to the national event. So about 600,000 kids participate at the first level, in every state, d. C.
Choose a topic in history, and that can be anything. It can be world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long as they are interested in it. They go out, they do research, and find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topic in history. So they are going to archives, into museums, into libraries, throughre sifting primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. Theme is, the triumph and tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from ii,an treaties to world war keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. And a paper category
In it. They go out, they do research, and find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topic in history. So they are going to archives, into museums, into libraries, and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. Also a paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they prese
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