Student Product Samples

Get inspired by NHD projects submitted in previous years’ contests.

Websites

Below you will find examples of student created websites submitted in prior years. Pay close attention to how students craft their thesis statements, how they lay out their websites and utilize student-created words generated from secondary source research notes to create claims, and support these student-created claims with primary and secondary source evidence from a variety of sources like quotes/images/charts/maps etc.

Students that choose to create a website will use Google Sites to create their product.

Displays/Exhibits

An exhibit is a three-dimensional physical and visual representation of your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic’s significance in history.

Exhibits use color, images, documents, objects, graphics, and design, as well as words, to tell your story. Exhibits can be interactive experiences by asking viewers to play music, look at a video, or open a door or window to see more documents or photos.

Below you will find examples of student created Displays/Exhibits submitted in prior years. Pay close attention to how students craft their thesis statements, how they lay out their Displays/Exhibits and utilize student-created words generated from secondary source research notes to create claims, and support these student-created claims with primary and secondary source evidence from a variety of sources like quotes/images/charts/maps etc.

Documentary

A documentary is a ten-minute film that uses media (images, video, and sound) to communicate your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic’s significance in history.

A documentary should reflect your ability to use audiovisual equipment to communicate your topic’s significance. The documentary category will help you develop skills in using photographs, film, video, audio, computers, and graphic presentations. Your presentation should include primary source materials and also must be an original production. To produce a documentary, you must have access to equipment and be able to operate it.

See below examples of student created Documentaries.

Students that choose to create a documentry will use WeVideo to create their product.

Performance

A performance is a dramatic portrayal of your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic’s significance in history. Developing a strong narrative that allows your subject to unfold in a dramatic and visually interesting way is important. Memorizing, rehearsing, and refining your script is essential, so you should schedule time for this in addition to research, writing, costuming, and prop gathering.

Essay/Paper

A paper is a written format for presenting your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic’s significance in history.

A paper is a highly personal and individual effort, and if you prefer to work alone this may be the category for you. Papers depend almost entirely on words to tell the story, and you can usually include more information in a paper than in some of the other categories. Various types of creative writing (for example, fictional diaries, poems, etc.) are permitted but must conform to all general and category rules.

Party at Los Alamos, with Oppenheimer, World War 2. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest,

A view of the USS Shaw exploding at the U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor. Britannica ImageQuest

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