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Skills Training Videos
There are certain skills you will need to know to make a winning entry. Two skills that are critical are learning how to identify and use primary sources and how to interview.
We have captured two presentations for you to watch. Diana McCain from the CT Historical Society presents the primary skills workshop and Pat Pinney presents the interview skills workshop.
Primary Sources
Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. They are important because they can be used as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research.
Watch as Diana McCain presents the primary source workshop to the students from Timothy Edwards Middle School, South Windsor, CT.
Download the PDF on How To Analyze a Historical Document
Interview
Knowing how to interview, and what questions to ask are critical skills for everyone involved in the History Day competition.
Learn how to do it with Pat Pinney a teacher at Hall Memorial School in Willington, Connecticut. Download her notes and watch her conduct an interview in front of her students.
Her students won the Junior (6-8) first prize in all four CT History Day categories, Paper, Individual performance, Documentary, and Web, last year.
Download the PDF on Conducting an Interview
