Encourage students to complete their research.

January: Complete the participation and receive your school's allotments for how many projects may advance to Regional competitions.

The participation survey will be emailed in early December and due in early January. Discuss and combine project totals with other History Day teachers in your school. Prepare for the participation survey by getting a sense of how many projects your school has in each category/division.

December/January: Encourage students to attend a Hullabaloo for research and project help.

Once they've narrowed their topic, encourage them to begin researching primary sources.

November/December: Have students choose a topic, and begin their secondary source research.

You may ask students to complete a topic proposal, or to sign an agreement between group members and parents. Begin discussing the theme, and topics students may be interested in.

September/October: Introduce History Day to your students.

You can also look at sample timelines from our Master Teacher Network. History Day is designed for teachers to adapt in their classrooms.īelow we have suggested a broad timeline for completing the History Day program, but there is no 'right' way to implementing the project in your classroom.

History timeline template google docs