National History Day

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National History Day

• This years theme is Conflict and Compromise in
  History

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Task Definition

• What is the student supposed to do?
• A History Fair Project Exhibit, Paper,
• Documentary, or Performance
• What are the possible topics?
• www.nationalhistoryday.org

3
Information Seeking Strategies

• What are the possible sources of information
• they can use?
• What are the best sources for this assignment?
• Have they used a variety of resources?

4
Location and Access

• Where will they find these resources?
• School Media Center,
• the Public Library
• and SUNLINK
• http//destiny.leon.k12.fl.us
• www.co.leon.fl.us/library/
• www.sunlink.ucf.edu
• Do they know how
• to use them?

Deerlake Media Center
Public Library
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Primary Sources

• Diaries
• Journals
• Speeches
• Interviews
• Primary sources are actual material written
  or produced in the time period students are
  investigating.

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Secondary Sources

• Books
• Articles
• Internet resources
• Experts on the topic
• Secondary sources are accounts of the past
  created by people writing about events sometime
  after they happened.

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Online Resources

• Purchased by Leon County Schools
• www.dmc.leon.k12.fl.us/Resources.htm
• Grolier Online user leonco password leonco
• Gale Student Resource Center user tall78416
  password LCSB
• E-Library user LEONSCHOOLS password LCSB
• SIRS Renaissance user leon password lcsb
• Sunlink www.sunlink.ucf.edu
• Leon County Public Library www.co.leon.fl.us/libr
  ary/
• Bibliographic information www.noodletools.com
• user leonschools password leon

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Web sites

• www.loc.gov The Library of Congress
• www.archives.gov The National Archives and
  Records Administration
• www.si.edu The Smithsonian
  Institution
• www.historynet.com The History Net
• www.ushmm.org U.S. Holocaust Museum
• www.cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ Making of
  America

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Use of Information

• How will they record information?
• Make note cards. These can be rearranged
• as you put your report together.
• Bibliographic information must be recorded
• when you find information.
• www.noodletools.com