They find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives, into museums, into libraries and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources and theyre thinking critically about that and why their traffic was important in history as related to the annual theme and this year is triumph and tragedy and them they present their findings in different formats and one of the categories that you see behind me and theres also 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. So for performance category, they first have to do their research. Good, Solid Research into primary and secondary sources. Going into the museums, say its the civil rights topic and theyll find someone to do an interview with, but basically, the research that historical quality, the information and the
Tongs representatives witness the final capitulation. General of the army, Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander for the occupation of japan warns the authority. Pacific fleet commander and Admiral Halsey welcome him and his chief of staff of board. Escorts thetz general to the nimitz miranda deck for a 20 minute ceremony. It is sunday, september 2, 1945. Right now were on the o1 level of the battleship missouri. Ofnks to the events september 2, 1945, we call this the surrender deck. This is where the japanese sunday surrender ending world war ii. Behind me is where the table sat that day. The ship looked different. Big different than the canopy. This was rotated 30 degrees to starboard to make room for all the officials that would be on board. If you looked around and above is that day you wouldve seen thousands of the missouri curve, crews from other ships hanging on to anything they could, trying to get a glimpse of what was about to occur. At my clock in the morning when the ceremon
Into museums, into libraries, assisting through primary sources and secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history related to an annual theme, and this year the theme is triumph and tragedy. They present things in different formats. One of the categories as you can see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Is also paper categories and there is dramatic performance, documentary or website. History day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. For the performance category, like any other student in any other category, they first have to do research. Good, Solid Research into primary and secondary research. Going into the museums. Lets say its a civil rights topic and they will find someone to do an interview with. Research with historical quality, the information and evidence, everyone has to do that. Then they have to think about that information in relationship to the theme triumph
It is a wonderful feeling to be back at launchpad 309a it was a difference this time. I want to turn and ask neil a question, or maybe tell buzz aldrin something. Of course, i am here by myself, but at any rate, i know they would enjoy joining into this sort of a conversation as much as i am looking forward to it. Robert did you find it different coming out for apollo 11 as compared to your gemini 10 mission . Michael the flights of gemini 10 and apollo 11 were quite different. We rode up on a rocket, so that part was similar, but the Gemini Program got a lot of publicity, some of it worldwide, but nonetheless it had more of a local character. It was almost like a celebrity, celebratory sort of event, like perhaps an athletic contest, whereas apollo 11, on the other hand, was serious business. We crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders. We knew that everyone would be looking at us, friend or foe, and we wanted to do the best we possibly could, put our best foot forward, and
Program that culminates in a student competition. Students are encouraged to choose a topic in history and that can be anything, world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long they are interested in it. Then they go out and find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history, so they are going into archives, into museums, into libraries, and they are sifting through primary sources, secondary sources. And then they are thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to an annual theme. And this year is the theme of triumph and tragedy in history. And then they present their findings in different formats. Of course, one of the categories you see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Then there is also the paper category and there is dramatic , performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opp