So You Plan to Do an Exhibit
Click here to find a very detailed explanation on how to do your exhibit. You can print this at home if you wish. This is another site that will give you guidelines.
So You Plan to Do a Performance
Click here to find a very detailed explanation on how to do your performance. You can print this at home if you wish. This is another site that will give you guidelines.
So You Plan to Do a Website
Click here to find a very detailed explanation on how to do your website. You can print this at home if you wish.
This is another site that will give you guidelines.
This is another site that will give you guidelines.
So You Plan to Do a Documentary
Click here to find a very detailed explanation on how to do a documentary. You can print this at home if you wish. This is another site that will give you guidelines.
Sample Projects
Click here to see the sample projects posted on the National History Day in Minnesota page.
More Sample Projects
Scroll down this page to see sample documentaries and performances of History Day projects. You can find more on You Tube.
Charles Lindberg 2001 Award-Winning Video
Award-winning video from Minnesota History Day, 2001. A good example of narrowing a History Day topic to focus on a specific aspect of a famous person's accomplishments. Documentary was created on the theme, "Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas"
Sample Individual Performance
This is the video of a junior individual performance for NHD 2012 on the Germ Theory of Disease and Reforms in Sanitation. This video was of the finals round, and she ended up with 7th place in the nation. Enjoy!
Sample Documentary
This Documentary was the Maine Junior Group Winner Documentary in 2010. This will give you an idea of what your project would be like if you decide to do a documentary. Please remember you must have the computer technology to do this at your home. The theme this year was Innovation in History: Impact and Change
Another Junior Performance from National History Day 2012
The Great Seattle Fire
This documentary is the 1st place winner for the Junior Group Documentary division in the National History Day contest of 2007. That is, it was the winning documentary across the entire nation. The theme was Triumph and Tragedy; this documentary fully explains how the Great Seattle Fire fit perfectly as a symbol of both of these qualities. Much research, effort, and sweat went into this documentary; in the end, it all payed off at Nationals, held in Washington DC. The film was sequences using Final Cut Express. Thank you for all who helped us with this documentary... you know who you are. You are welcome to take information and techniques from this documentary, but please respect the fact that we DID produce this documentary from scratch. Thank you, and enjoy
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