Hawai`i Council for the Humanities

Hawai‘i History Day has a new website dedicated exclusively for students, teachers, and parents.  For detailed information about this program, go to http://hi.nhd.org.

Hawai‘i History Day brings history into the classroom for students grades 4 through 12 as they do research into primary sources and interpret them to develop essays, displays, documentaries, living-history performances, and websites.

Hawai‘i History Day, an affiliate of National History Day (NHD), is a year-long history education program that invigorates the teaching and learning of history.  It promotes a theme-based, research-centered model for history and civics education.  Students present their projects in a display, performance, documentary, essay, or website project. History Day culminates in the presentation and evaluation of these projects at school, district, state, and national history days.

History Day reaches students in public, private, charter, Hawaiian-immersion, and home schools throughout the state and provides teachers with lesson plans and workshops related to themes selected by NHD each year.  Historians from universities and colleges, as well as research librarians, archivists and museum and historical society educators, collaborate with HCH by serving as judges and consultants for students and teachers.