History Uncovered Competition: ABC-CLIO's Annual History Research Competition

How to use the ABC-CLIO Data Base:


You now have access to the following ABC-CLIO Database(s):

World Geography - http://www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com/
World History: Ancient & Medieval - http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/
World History: The Modern Era - http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/
American History - http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
American Government - http://www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com/
United States Geography - http://www.usgeography.abc-clio.com/
US at War: Understanding Conflict - http://www.usatwar.abc-clio.com/
Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society - http://www.issues.abc-clio.com/

You can access all your previews through the following link - http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/

YOUR DATABASE ACCESS INFORMATION:
STUDENT ACCESS CODE: For all students to access the database from school or home.

Username: curleystudent
Password: curley




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The competition opens November 14, 2008 and ends March 30, 2009. Winners will be announced in May of 2009.

Teams of two-six students, their social studies teachers, and/or library-media specialists are eligible to participate in the middle grades and high school competitive tracks.

Winning teams will be awarded digital whiteboards for their schools, subscriptions to ABC-CLIO’s history databases, and cash awards for students and their schools. Each month, there’ll be a drawing for $500 gift certificates for ABC-CLIO reference works in print, awarded to two lucky school sites whose teams’ Entries are drawn at random
from among all submissions received to date. All prizewinning Entries will be showcased in the online History Uncovered Hall of Fame.

What do we mean by “people, events, or places”?

People: an individual, or a group of individuals who share purpose, ancestry, or ethnicity, e.g., Mahatma Gandhi, the Huguenots, the Aztec civilization

Event: a specific day, date, or happening, e.g., D-Day; July 4, 1776; the Boxer Rebellion

Place: a geographical location, area, or political entity, e.g., the Gobi Desert, Plymouth Rock, Cuba
What do we mean by “defend your choices”?

Your Entry will communicate your viewpoint and the research that you feel strengthens your position. You should be able to provide the historical basis for each of your choices and back up your statements using facts, evidence, and other resources from the ABC-CLIO databases.

What sort of evidence or resources may be used?

You may use information from articles and reference pages, photographs, quotes, audio files, maps, graphics, music—anything you think will enhance your Entry. You must include a minimum of one (1) citation from the ABC-CLIO databases for each of your top 10 selections.

Are there guidelines or restrictions for selecting our top 10 people, events, and places?

Your Entry may be any combination of 10 “people, events, or places” in your chosen category. You must represent each classification: people, events, and places; however, you will decide how to combine your choices to total 10. For example, you could choose 1 individual for people, 6 events, and 3 places, or select 5 representations for people, 3 events, and 2 places.

We will begin on Monday, March 9th and mostly work during intervention time. This will be counted towards your grade as an online question.

6th Graders Ancient Civilizations
7th Graders World Geography and History starting in 1492
8th Graders U.S. History and Government