2011-2012
Stay after permission slip for Wednesday and next Monday
Pictures from School Event
- What is History Day?
- Guidelines for History Day
- Calendar of Events
- Library Links & Book Resources
- Research Links
- Process Paper & Annotated Bibliography
A State Documentary recently made by Richfield student, Brady.
What is National History Day?
National History Day (NHD) is a program created to promote the study of history. Through NHD students develop skills of researching, communication, and the appreciation of history. National History Day also allows for the community to work with students and the school.
This year each student will explore the theme of "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History." Based on the theme, students will develop a project in one of five categories: historical papers, exhibits, performances, web pages or documentaries. Students are allowed to work individually or in groups of two to four. The sizes of the groups are based on the category they decide to participate in. See your teacher for group limitations.
Once the projects are completed students will participate in a judging process where they compete against others in the same category. These students will first participate in a local competition at our school. From there they can advance to regional, state and national competitions. Last year, Richfield School had ----- projects advance to State. In 2006, we had five projects advance to State. In 2009 we had one state honorable mention. 2010 had 3 state qualifiers, and 2011 had two projects make state.
Guidelines for History Day
Student's / Parent's Guide to NHD - Yearly Theme, Topic Ideas, Rulebook, Process Papers, Annotated Bibliography, Sample Projects - Everything you need to know about NHD.
National History Day Homepage
GRADING EVALUATION CHECKLIST - This is the sheet that will be used to grade your project. In the next couple weeks you'll see minor changes to this scoring sheet.
Tips - Follow these instructions to make your History Day experience more organized and manageable.
Website Weebly - Use this site for building your NHD website, if you choose that catagory.
Calendar of Events
*** Dates NOT in red are subject to change***
TBA – NHD Topic Lookup –
TBA – NHD Book Reading Activity – Due following day
TBA – NHD Key Words Searching – Due following day
Wednesday, November 16th - 7th & 8th grade NHD Contract due
Friday, November 18th - 6th grade NHD Contract and Topic sheet due
Wednesday, December 7th - 8th grade visits Madison Library
Friday, December 16th - 6th grade visits UW Oshkosh Library
Thursday, January 5th - 7th grade visits UWM
TBA– NHDPuzzlePiecequestions2011-2012[1] and questions on Internet – These are the questions, you will have to do the questions and copy and paste into your inspiration at school.
Wednesday, January 18th - All History Day projects are due today!
TBA - PERMISSION SLIPS
TBA- Improvements Grading Sheet - Use this to prove your improvements
TBA – Improvements Sheet and Presentation due
Thursday, February 2 - Richfield School History Day Event
Saturday, March 3 - Regional Competition - UW-Milwaukee
Saturday, May 5 - State Competition - UW-Madison
June 10 - 14 - National Competition - University of Maryland-College Park
Library Links & Book Resources
Germantown Library
Hartford Library
Menomonee Falls Library
BadgerLInk - Primary source newspaper information
ArCat - Archives Catalog
MadCat - Madison library
PantherCat - UWM Library
Amazon.com - if you want to purchase books
googlebooks.com - sometimes, you can find books here for free. Copy screen to paint, then print them.
Research Links
ABC-CLIO -
Library of Congress
Wisconsin Turning Points - Search many Wisconsin-related historical events
Access Newspaper Archive - Online library of newspaper articles
Links - UWM Library, BadgerLink, Primary Source Links
History Websites - A wide range of history websites to help with any project
NHD website research checklist - Be sure to do a thorough search on each of these links. Read through them carefully as some of the websites will be very useful to you particular topic, but some may not.
Process Paper & Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography - How to write an annotated bibliography.
Process Paper Samples - How to write your process paper.
Noodle Tool - Site any kind of source imaginable using Noodle Bib Express
Bibliographrical keywords -
Helpful Hints