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History Day in California is a statewide program sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation in conjuction with National History Day. Now in its 25th year, History Day is an exciting, history-based learning experience for students from 4-12th grades.

History Day is a performanced-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.

 Benefits for Teachers:

• 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.