3 CLOCK HOURS available free of charge. For classroom teachers, librarians and curriculum administrators: Learn about this project-focused, inquiry-based learning program that develops reading, research and analysis skills that meet the Common Core State Language Arts Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. The workshop includes a one-hour judge’s orientation that explains how the History Day rubric is applied to the evaluation of individual student projects. Participants will then get a special pass to view student projects and process papers LIVE for one hour. Then you will spend the last hour meeting with experienced history teachers to discuss the process and how to implement the program into the classroom. Handouts will include a CD containing primary sources that support 18 topics in U.S. and Washington State History, transcripts from 293 oral history interviews with African Americans, Filipino Americans, as well as farmers, fishers, miners, immigrants, loggers, ranchers and teachers in Washington State who were born between 1880 and 1920, the History Day Teachers Manual, a guide for meeting Common Core Standards through National History Day, an overview of primary and secondary source research skills. Participants will also receive a guide to the 2018 History Contest and a listing of topics with local/regional research sources. Presenter: Mark Vessey, Washington State History Day Coordinator, Washington State Historical Society