The Student Process
To start it is important that you understand that NHD is a competition, therefore, there are rules and keys to success. NHDNH is here to support you in creating the best project for the competition by guiding you through these nuances.
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Step 1: Determine an area of interest. Use the graphic organizer below to jump start your brainstorm of possible topics.
Step 2: Dissecting the Theme. The most crucial thing to note is that each project must directly relate and prove it's relation to an annual theme.
Step 3: Choosing a Topic. Narrow down the topic to something manageable.
Step 4: Finding a Research Question. There are good and bad research questions.
Step 5: Doing Research. Go to our website for links to primary source search engines.
Step 6: Building a Thesis. A good thesis is specific and provable.
Step 7: Choosing a Category. The category should be determined by the research. For example if they have a lot of fun tangential stories to support their thesis, perhaps a website would be best. Or if they have lots of photos, perhaps a documentary.
Step 8: Creating Projects.
Step 9: Feedback. Take feedback from teachers, judges, and NHDNH to improve your project.
Click on the link below to go to follow instructions for that Step.
Step 1: Determine an area of interest. Use the graphic organizer below to jump start your brainstorm of possible topics.
Step 2: Dissecting the Theme. The most crucial thing to note is that each project must directly relate and prove it's relation to an annual theme.
Step 3: Choosing a Topic. Narrow down the topic to something manageable.
Step 4: Finding a Research Question. There are good and bad research questions.
Step 5: Doing Research. Go to our website for links to primary source search engines.
Step 6: Building a Thesis. A good thesis is specific and provable.
Step 7: Choosing a Category. The category should be determined by the research. For example if they have a lot of fun tangential stories to support their thesis, perhaps a website would be best. Or if they have lots of photos, perhaps a documentary.
Step 8: Creating Projects.
Step 9: Feedback. Take feedback from teachers, judges, and NHDNH to improve your project.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm a list of possible topics by using this graphic organizer. Click below to download the image. You can add more spheres or just add to the ones already there.
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Possible NHDNH Topic Eras
1. The French Revolution
2. The Enlightenment
3. Industrial Revolution
4. 20th Century Reformers: The Progressive and Populists
5. The Modernization of Japan in the 19th Century
6. US Imperialism
7. The Russian Revolution
8. The Chinese Communist Revolution
9. The United Nations
10. The Indian Independence Movement
11. Post-colonial Africa
12. The End of the USSR and Communism in Europe
13. Arab/Israeli Conflict
14. Viet Nam War & Protests
15. Korean War
16. Red Scare (1920s-1930s)
17. Great Migration of African-Americans from the South
18. Roaring Twenties
19. Harlem Renaissance
20. The Great Depression
21. The Dust Bowl
22. The New Deal
23. World War I
24. World War II
25. The Manhattan Project
26. Internment of Japanese Americans
27. The Space Race
28. 1960s Counterculture Movement
29. Women's Liberation Movement
30. Desegregation of American Schools
31. Armenian Genocide
32. Jim Crow Laws
33. Urbanization
34. Immigration to America
35. Voting Rights History
36. Civil Disobedience & Civil Rights Movement
37. Migrant Farm Worker Movement
38. McCarthyism
39. US Labor Movement
40. International Movement to Abolish Slavery
41. US Constitution History
42. American Indian Movement
43. Stock Market Crash of 1929
44. Ku Klux Klan
45. Beat Generation
2. The Enlightenment
3. Industrial Revolution
4. 20th Century Reformers: The Progressive and Populists
5. The Modernization of Japan in the 19th Century
6. US Imperialism
7. The Russian Revolution
8. The Chinese Communist Revolution
9. The United Nations
10. The Indian Independence Movement
11. Post-colonial Africa
12. The End of the USSR and Communism in Europe
13. Arab/Israeli Conflict
14. Viet Nam War & Protests
15. Korean War
16. Red Scare (1920s-1930s)
17. Great Migration of African-Americans from the South
18. Roaring Twenties
19. Harlem Renaissance
20. The Great Depression
21. The Dust Bowl
22. The New Deal
23. World War I
24. World War II
25. The Manhattan Project
26. Internment of Japanese Americans
27. The Space Race
28. 1960s Counterculture Movement
29. Women's Liberation Movement
30. Desegregation of American Schools
31. Armenian Genocide
32. Jim Crow Laws
33. Urbanization
34. Immigration to America
35. Voting Rights History
36. Civil Disobedience & Civil Rights Movement
37. Migrant Farm Worker Movement
38. McCarthyism
39. US Labor Movement
40. International Movement to Abolish Slavery
41. US Constitution History
42. American Indian Movement
43. Stock Market Crash of 1929
44. Ku Klux Klan
45. Beat Generation
