History Helpers support students' efforts to become active "producers" of history rather than passive consumers:

The following worksheets are provided by CMHEC to assist you in organizing your History Fair project. The worksheets are Adobe PDFs, and require the Adobe PDF reader.

Typically, students know the type of final product they will create early on in the History Fair process, although sometimes the nature of the sources may cause a student to turn to another medium (for example, if visual sources are not available or effective for a documentary or exhibit, a student may need decide to write a paper or create a performance instead). Students should view our History Fair project samples or samples from National History Day's Web site.

"Exhibiting History" offers a classroom or individual learning tool

"Exhibiting History" is a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation produced by CMHEC which may be used in the classroom with an LCD projector or by individuals on computers. In the presentation we encourage students to think of their exhibit as a "mini-museum" where superior research and interpretation go hand-in-hand with effective and imaginative design. The presentation offers a "labels approach" to the exhibit text that is different than the older captions approach. It communicates the thesis and central points of the interpretation so that resembles a museum exhibit and presents a less disjointed narrative.

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