Teachers

Colorado History Day can help your students meet many of Colorado's Educational Content Standards in literacy, reading and writing, history, geography, civics and economics.

Download the Colorado Model Content Standards Chart and Colorado Model Content Standards Student Checklist.

Read "Why History Day" for details on how participation helps meet the standards in today's classroom.

Check out these helpful links:

• History Colorado--our state historical society--has many resources for students and teachers. You can start here: http://www.historycolorado.org/educators/educators http://www.historycolorado.org/kids-students/be-part-history-0

• The Denver Art Museum also offers teacher workshops: Denver Art Museum's Creativity Resource for Teachers. Lesson Plans and Ideas Fresh ideas to inspire teachers and students, written by visual arts, language arts, and social studies teachers. View Lesson Plans and Ideas: creativity.denverartmuseum.org

• Docs Teach is related to the National Archives Experience and helps teachers and students understand working with historical documents: docsteach.org/

• Get Help from the Denver Public Library with this program designed specifically for National History Day in Colorado: http://denverlibrary.org/let-us-help-you-succeed-national-history-day

• History Colorado (our state Historical Society) http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/research-aids

• National Archives Specially created page for NHD studuents http://docsteach.org/home/national-history-day

• FUN & instructive videos on history investigation and primary sources, compliments of the Pikes Peak Library: Frozen to Death on Pikes Peak: A Cold Case Investigation on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/27793340
  And, Tracing Tesla: The Search for His Lost Laboratory: http://vimeo.com/15042609

• Pikes Peak Library Regional History Series website that features books and DVDs for purchase: http://www.regionalhistoryseries.org/RHS_DVDs_and_Books.htm

• Reading, Writing and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students: This is a very extensive website about researching and writing for history: wwwapps.ups.com/

• National Archives Teacher Pages: This link provides information for teacher about doing research through the National Archives: www.archives.gov/education/history-day/

• National Archives Digital Vaults: This link will allow you access to the digitized collections of the National Archives. www.digitalvaults.org/

• Library of Congress: Teaching with Primary Sources Professional Development through Metropolitan State College of Denver: www.mscd.edu/tps

• American Journeys: This website contains a digital collection of over 17,000 primary source documents: www.americanjourneys.org/

• The Smithsonian Institution: This website is a stepping stone into the world of the Smithsonian Institution: www.si.edu/Researchers www.si.edu/Researchers

• PBS: This link is to the PBS website. Don't forget about viewing professiona; documentaries as secondary sources: www.pbs.org/topics/history/

• Colorado Archives: This is a collection of documents related to Colorado's past: www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/

• Western History and Geneology--Denver Public Library: This is one of the largest collections of local, state and regional documents. It is housed at the downtown branch of the Denver Public Library: digital.denverlibrary.org/

• Changes to MLA format for National History Day: There have been some changes to the MLA formatting for citing work. Check out the changes here: greaterdenvermetronhd-org1.webs.com/MLA%20bibliography%20changes.pdf