Benefits for Teachers
History Day is a performance-based academic endeavor that fully supports the California History-Social Science Framework and History/Social Science Content Standards. History Day provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities to apply learned information through authentic assessment in student-outcome products and can easily be integrated into the everyday classroom curriculum. • gives a model teaching tool for the classroom, based on active learning
• it is easily content-adaptable
• caters to specific needs and interests of students of all different levels and abilities
• supports high academic standards by including varied methods of participation and interdisciplinary approaches
• inherently produces a progressive stream of evaluation of student product for evaluation and assessment
• helps teachers meet the requirements of state history standards
• helps teachers integrate the study of history with other disciplines, including writing, the arts, and other social
sciences
• encourages students to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians.
See the Sacramento County History Day Timeline | DOC | PDF for important dates and deadlines.
Coaches/Advisors Workshop
September 23, 2008 - Tue
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Sacramento County History Day Coaches/Advisors Workshop | PDF
American River College, 4700 College Oak Drive, Sacramento
Important information for History Day will be handed out at this meeting
Please contact Myron Piper at (916) 868-1049, or by e-mail at mpiper@sachistoryday.org for more information.