1. 2010 National History Day
Innovation and Change
CollegePark,MarylandJune12-17,2010

2. 2010
Nevada
National
History Day
Participants

3. Nevada Pizza Party on Sunday, June 13, 2010
• Choose a layout…

4. Junior Group Exhibit Entry
Matthew Probst
Brandon Franke
Saville Middle School

5. NHD State Button Exchange Sarah Niederman
Las Vegas Academy
Senior Individual Performance

6. Washington DC Group Tour of
Nevada Participants
Nevada Participants
Albert Einstein Memorial

7. NHD 2010 Nevada Participants Meeting with Senator Reid

9. Why NHD??
The Research Shows…..
NHD Research Study on Applied Skills, Academic
Performance, & Interest in History and Civic Engagement
• Conducted in 4 sites around the country
• Data collection included performance assessments,
surveys, and standardized test scores
• The study explored students’
 research and writing skills
 ability to interpret historical information
 Academic performance
 Interest in past and current events

10. Findings: Applied
Skills
What skills do NHD students gain?
Can they apply those skills?
How do they compare to their peers?

11. Research Skills
Compared to peers…
• Almost twice as many NHD high school students correctly
identified primary sources (pre, 80% vs. 48%; post, 85% vs.
48%).
• NHD students see a wider range of sources—experts,
museums, lecture notes, diaries, journals, films, first-person
accounts, biographies.
• NHD students have a better understanding of how to
evaluate sources.

12. Critical Thinking Skills
Compared to peers…
• NHD students are better at interpreting information, drawing
conclusions, summarizing passages—scoring 10 & 20 percentage
points higher than peers.
• The more time in the program, the higher their scores.

13. Writing Skills
• NHD students out-scored peers on 2 assessments:
• Pre-test means: 3.5 vs. 2.6
• Post-test means: 3.8 vs. 2.9
• Differences: sense of audience, distinct voice, organization,
sentence variety, richer vocabulary.

14. Findings:
Interest in History & Civic
Engagement
Are NHD students more confident,
interested, & engaged?

15. Confidence
Compared to peers, NHD students are more confident in…
• their knowledge of history (M=2.9 vs. 2.5)
• events not studied in school (2.7 vs. 2.5)
• ability to develop a research plan (M=2.9 vs. 2.7)
• ability to organize a report (3.1 vs. 2.9)
• doing internet research (M=3.4 vs. 3.2) & using (3.4 vs. 3.1)
& evaluating what they find (3.2 vs. 2.9).

17. TEACHING THE THEME: Debate & Diplomacy
in History
This year’s theme is “Debate and Diplomacy in History:
Successes, Failures, Consequences.”
Students MUST select a topic with a connection to the
annual theme.
Projects with weak or non-existent theme connections will
not do well at History Day competitions.

18. For this year, topics should be an example of debate
AND/OR diplomacy. The topic could be an example of both,
but it doesn’t have to be. As you introduce the theme to
your students, begin by defining each of the words in the
theme:
Debate: A debate is an argument, dispute or
deliberation. Students can think about picking a topic that
might be…
• an actual debate— such as the televised presidential
debates between presidential candidates or,
• a debate over an issue or an idea—such as the reform
movement to give women the right to vote.
DEFINING THE TERMS

19. Diplomacy: Diplomacy usually refers to international
affairs, negotiating between differing groups, or the use
of persuasion to achieve some objective.
• Have students start with the small diplomacies of
everyday life…
 What did they want?
 What did they get?
 How did they get it?
 At what cost did they get what they wanted?
• Students could also look at topics on a national or state
level, such as treaty rights negotiations, labor strikes, or
peace conferences such as the Yalta Conference.
• On the international level, this could refer to topics like
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
DEFINING THE TERMS

20. The second half of the theme,
“Successes, Failures,
Consequences,” should give
students an idea about the types
of questions they can ask about
their topic to direct their
research. What were some of the
short and long term outcomes of
this topic?
• Students can look at a current
law and trace it back to the
debate and discussion that led
to the law ~ state & national
court cases
DEFINING THE TERMS
http://people.howstuffworks.c
om/ten-controversial-court-
cases.htm

21. Nevada Topics
1. Nevada Statehood – “Battle Born
2. Mining Strikes in Nevada ~ 1881 in Lewis (Lander
County); 1907 in Goldfield
3. Yucca Mountain
4. Federal ownership of lands in Nevada
5. Relocation of Indian tribes
6. Indian gaming
7. Testing of the atomic bomb in the Nevada desert
8. Water rights
9. The Moulin Rouge hotel & African American
entertainers in the 1950’s

22. Resources
Resources you may not have considered (for students)
1. ABC-CLIO
2. Library of Congress
3. National Archives
4. Eyewitness to History
5. ONE ~ Online Nevada Encyclopedia
6. Nevada State Museum Virtual Tours
7. GOOGLE Images (Can do an advanced search)
8. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
9. EDSITEment (for teacher use)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_websites.asp
10. NNCSS website resource list (for teacher use):
http://www.nvsocialstudies.com/resources.html

23. 1. State Contest Location: UNR Redfield Campus located at 18600 Wedge
Parkway off the Mt. Rose hwy
2. On the teacher training CD
• Rubric for judging entries
• Sample judges questions
• 2011 NHD Rulebook
3. Revised Entry Form
• Teacher phone number (last 4 digits used for registering for NHD)
• URL ~ If a student is entering a website their URL MUST be on the
entry form!!
4. Increase in entry fees
• In order to “build capacity” for the NVHD program, the NVHD
Executive Board has decided to increase entry fees to $10 per
student.
5. New NVHD website coming soon!! Through a grant from NHD, we are
able to create and sustain a new “stand alone” NVHD website!! Look for
it at the beginning of the year!
Details, Details, Details…….

24. 1. Individual and Group are now separate categories
2. Must use the NHD website editor accessed at: http://nhd.weebly.com/
3. File size ~ still 100 MB; however, no need to check file size as Weebly
won’t allow anything bigger
4. Multimedia Usage:
• No limit to the number of pieces BUT no clip may be longer than 45
seconds (e.g. background music must be looped)
5. Annotated Bibliography and Process Paper should:
 Be a part of the website
 Be integrated into navigational structure of the website
 NOT be printed and sent in
 Is NOT included in the word count
6. DEADLINE: Websites are closed for judging at 5pm on March 18th.
7. Copyrighted music/songs may not be used (unless permission has been
granted to do so) ~ recommend that students use websites such as
“Limewire” or “Freeplay Music”
8. No narration of student composed text
9. Footnotes, Endnotes, or internal documentation NOT required
Website Category Changes

25. http://89947171.nhd.weebly.com/
Student Website Example

26. Northern Nevada Competition, Saturday, March 26, 2011 ~ UNR
Redfield Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway off Mt Rose Hwy.
Want your teachers and students to get involved?