Search New York State History Day: Classroom Resources Annual Curriculum Packet   Teacher's Toolkit   After School Club Kit   Standards   Project Examples   Home can't read it? click here for a new image		Home     News     Contest     Teachers     Students     Parents     Staff     Contact Us     Store   Teacher's Toolkit New and revised version now available for 2008-2009! History Day in the Classroom, A Teacher's Toolkit is a ten lesson unit created to assist teachers with implementing History Day with their students. Designed to introduce History Day themes, the lessons help students build the skills they need to succeed with the program. Lesson topics include: Defining National History Day Building researching skills Identifying and learning from primary sources Choosing and narrowing a topic based on an annual theme Crafting a quality thesis statement Developing an annotated bibliography Writing a top-notch process paper Lessons are based on New York State Learning Standards and contain worksheets, rubrics, and content resources. Click here to download the the Table of Contents and a Sample Lesson from the Teacher's Toolkit. (Adobe PDF file) Click here to purchase a professionally-bound version from our online store.   Annual Theme Supplement History Day in the Classroom: A Teacher's Toolkit has been revised to remove all theme specific lesson plans. Nonetheless, it still contains a place - Lesson Three - where the concepts behind the annual theme should be investigated. To this end, we have created seperate and supplementary lessons based on specific annual themes. Click the links below to download these supplements, which contain one to two lesson plans, for free: 2009: The Individual In History: Actions and Legacy Supplement 2008: Conflict and Compromise in History Supplement 2007: Triumph and Tragedy in History Supplement