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Places to Start
Many thanks to 2002 National History Day Teacher of the Year finalist Bonnie Guggenheim, George Washington High School (Denver), for her contributions to our Colorado Standards for Teachers.
Teachers will find these links helpful:
National History Day in Minnesota
This site is excellent for teacher resource material; getting started with History Day in the classroom; video examples for winning projects in performance and documentaries. http://www.mnhs.org/school/historyday
Contest Rules and Guidelines
Download the NHD Contest Rule Book plus additional tips from the State Office.
Internet Research Skills
Evaluating internet sites. The ability to "surf the net" is not the same as developing skills to "research on the net". Students and teachers will also find General Research Skills very helpful.
National History Day
Find the NHD Contest Rule Book (rules and procedures) and NHD Theme and Curriculum Guide for previous and current NHD themes. It also contains numerous links to research sites.
NHD Theme and Curriculum Guide
Colorado Department of Education
Find Colorado's model content standards for grades K-12, along with suggested grade level expectations for some subject areas and additional information on the standards-based education effort in Colorado. History Day contributes to content standards in Literacy, Reading and Writing, History, Geography, Civics, Economics.
Local Resources
Denver Public Library
Western History/Genealogy Dept.
Blair/Caldwell African American Research Library
10 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204-2731
303-640-6291
http://www.denver.lib.co.us
Colorado Historical Society
Stephen H. Hart Library
1300 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/library.htm
Colorado State Publications Library
201 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-6725
http://www.cde.state.co.us/stateinfo/slstpfaqs.htm
Colorado Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 9218
Denver, CO 80209-0218
303-571-1535
http://www.cogensoc.org
Colorado State Archives
1313 Sherman Street, Room 1B
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-2358
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/
University of Colorado at Boulder
Libraries: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/
Archives: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/
Prospector: The Colorado Unified Catalog
http://prospector.coalliance.org/search/
Colorado State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections
http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/
National Archives - Rocky Mountain Region
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