The National History Day Challenge
The NHD Challenge is a state and national competition done every year to help make history come alive in the eyes of the student in the challenge and those who choose to be apart of the experience. This year the theme of the project is Turning Points in History: People, Places, and Events. The driving question of the challenge is "What major turning point in history do you feel made the biggest impact in history?" For the NHD Challenge as a group we can all put our minds together and create a website, documentary, or put on a performance to present our historical turning point. The NHD Challenge is a chance for students to get together and learn history in a fun new creative way.
Our Challenge
When we started the project we had a really hard time choosing our topic because we needed it to relate to the government. The first topic we chose was about how the government changed TV. By this we meant how the FCC changed TV and the FCC relates to government because it is run by the government. We couldn’t use that one because someone already had it as well with the Prohibition topic we wanted. Our teacher Mr. Cegavske suggested that we do one of the amendments that hadn’t been chosen, so we researched some amendments and decided on the fourteenth amendment as our topic for the project.
For the research portion, we decided to split the work between our group members and three of us did three research papers and only one person did two. We checked out three books from the library about the Fourteenth Amendment and used those for resources. We also used two online databases called ABC-CLIO and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Another way we did research was by getting information from four different websites. Our two final research papers were two primary sources being the actual Fourteenth Amendment and a speech given in the time.
It was pretty simple how we decided our presentation category. We all voted on the category that we thought would be our strong point and work out the best for us, making the overall product well done. The created project that we are going to do for this category is going to be a website. We choose a website because we all have familiar insight on it and previous experience on it as well, making it another strong point for us. A website will be easy access for people to look at and it will be a product that can contain a large amount info.
The Fourteenth Amendment relates to the theme, turning point in political history, in this year National History Day. This has to do with politics because the Amendment is passed by two-thirds vote of congress. The congress is a legislature of the federal government. This amendment was a turning point because it gave equal rights to citizens of America. It gave people in America citizenship and allowed them to file complaints to punish those states that didn’t follow the terms.
For the research portion, we decided to split the work between our group members and three of us did three research papers and only one person did two. We checked out three books from the library about the Fourteenth Amendment and used those for resources. We also used two online databases called ABC-CLIO and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Another way we did research was by getting information from four different websites. Our two final research papers were two primary sources being the actual Fourteenth Amendment and a speech given in the time.
It was pretty simple how we decided our presentation category. We all voted on the category that we thought would be our strong point and work out the best for us, making the overall product well done. The created project that we are going to do for this category is going to be a website. We choose a website because we all have familiar insight on it and previous experience on it as well, making it another strong point for us. A website will be easy access for people to look at and it will be a product that can contain a large amount info.
The Fourteenth Amendment relates to the theme, turning point in political history, in this year National History Day. This has to do with politics because the Amendment is passed by two-thirds vote of congress. The congress is a legislature of the federal government. This amendment was a turning point because it gave equal rights to citizens of America. It gave people in America citizenship and allowed them to file complaints to punish those states that didn’t follow the terms.