Presenting the 2015-2016
National History Day Theme
Exploration, Encounter, Exchange
ever
Subject must concentrate on exploration, encounter,
or
exchange but don’t need to connect with
ALL
three.

The Fundamentals
A uniting of several things, ideas, or people. Tips over due to an encounter.

To provide or receive. An exchange could include physical products for example people, money, or objects or such things as ideas and culture.

Ever
Ex. Columbus and Indigenous Peoples
Topics must occured a minimum of two decades ago
New Horizon exploring Pluto, 2015
US Lands First Man around the Moon in 1969
Soviet and US Search for Mars within the 1970s

Sci-fi and also the Exploration for the future
The Geneva Conventions and Prisoner Exchange
Fort Snelling
Mass hangings in
Mankato
Items to Avoid
That which was their perspective around the situation?
Galileo and the persecutors
Ask the next questions regarding your major players, organizations, and/or ideas:
What compelled these to do the things they did?
The Manhattan Project
Why did they create certain decisions?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Need to see sample projects?

Take a look at our website at

world wide web.mnhs.org/historyday/subject-ideas

Ever
Need Assistance Orienting Yourself?
Encounter
What could one encounter?
Expected encounter or chance encounter?
Exchange
What’s the outcome?
That which was exchanged?
Not necessarily positive or mutually advantageous
People
Oppression
Challenge
Atmosphere
Military
Authority
Creating a
Significant
Theme Connection
Weak Theme Connection
Strong Theme Connection
The Titanic
explored
the sea,
experienced
an iceberg, and
exchanged
distress calls.

Following the Titanic sank, safety officials started
exploring
new rules to avoid an identical event from happening.
EEE and Project Organization
No formula
Not necessarily the finish result or even the what exactly?
Organize according to thesis

No 3 panel EEE
Dr. William Mayo
Subject Selection
Where you can Look
Local
Look Beyond Columbus
Occasions
Creatively
Tips
Opposing Viewpoints
Historic Context
Impact/What Exactly?
Avoid Let’s say history
Writing a biography with an explorer
Exploration
If somebody is out seeking something, in most cases not accidentally.

Who explores?
So what can be explored?
What’s the goal?
Doctors
Scientists
Politicians
Land
Ideas
New techniques
Human Instinct
Limits
Efficiency
Enhancements
Vaccines
Civil Legal rights activists exploring tactics
Darwin exploring Galapagos
Exploring limits of starvation
Exploration Examples
Encounter Examples
Encountering Polio

Nellie Bly encounters asylum conditions
Encountering Segregation
Exchange Examples
Christianity within the ” New World “
Fur Exchange MN
Exchange during protests
Atmosphere
Religion
Galileo- Going through the World, Encountering Resistance
Exploring Disease: Jonas Salk and also the Polio Vaccine
Asking the best questions to get at a subject:
Who had been involved?
That which was their goal?
Do you know the two sides?
Exploring Technology:
Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Empire
Technology
Brigham Youthful, Mormonism, and Westward Expansion

Science
Medicine
Encountering backwoods: Save the Redwood League
Occasions
When we didn’t find the moon while seeking space, the Soviets might have won the Cold War.

Impact/what exactly?
Artists
Musicians
Subject should be ever
Search for connections with other E’s
Consider connections
Exploration results in encounters
Encounters result in exchange
Don’t need to be within this order
Culture
Goods
Food
Ideas
Disease
Gunfire
What’s the impact from the exchange?
What altered due to the encounter?
Exactly what do we all know due to an exploration?
Personal connection!
Current Occasions
Overusing theme words
Selecting a side
Not creating any conclusion

Presenting the 2015-2016
National History Day Theme
Exploration, Encounter, Exchange
ever
Subject must concentrate on exploration, encounter,
or
exchange but don’t need to connect with
ALL
three.

The Fundamentals
A uniting of several things, ideas, or people. Tips over due to an encounter.

To provide or receive. An exchange could include physical products for example people, money, or objects or such things as ideas and culture.

Ever
Ex. Columbus and Indigenous Peoples
Topics must occured a minimum of two decades ago
New Horizon exploring Pluto, 2015
US Lands First Man around the Moon in 1969
Soviet and US Search for Mars within the 1970s

Sci-fi and also the Exploration for the future
The Geneva Conventions and Prisoner Exchange
Fort Snelling
Mass hangings in
Mankato
Items to Avoid
That which was their perspective around the situation?
Galileo and the persecutors
Ask the next questions regarding your major players, organizations, and/or ideas:
What compelled these to do the things they did?
The Manhattan Project
Why did they create certain decisions?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Want subject ideas?

Need to see sample projects?

Take a look at our website at

world wide web.mnhs.org/historyday/subject-ideas

Ever
Need Assistance Orienting Yourself?
Encounter
What could one encounter?
Expected encounter or chance encounter?
Exchange
What’s the outcome?
That which was exchanged?
Not necessarily positive or mutually advantageous
People
Oppression
Challenge
Atmosphere
Military
Authority
Creating a
Significant
Theme Connection
Weak Theme Connection
Strong Theme Connection
The Titanic
explored
the sea,
experienced
an iceberg, and
exchanged
distress calls.
Following the Titanic sank, safety officials started
exploring
new rules to avoid an identical event from happening.
EEE and Project Organization
No formula
Not necessarily the finish result or even the what exactly?
Organize according to thesis

No 3 panel EEE
Dr. William Mayo
Subject Selection
Where you can Look
Local
Look Beyond Columbus
Occasions
Creatively
Tips
Opposing Viewpoints
Historic Context
Impact/What Exactly?
Avoid Let’s say history
Writing a biography with an explorer
Exploration
If somebody is out seeking something, in most cases not accidentally.

Who explores?
So what can be explored?
What’s the goal?
Doctors
Scientists
Politicians
Land
Ideas
New techniques
Human Instinct
Limits
Efficiency
Enhancements
Vaccines
Civil Legal rights activists exploring tactics
Darwin exploring Galapagos
Exploring limits of starvation
Exploration Examples
Encounter Examples
Encountering Polio

Nellie Bly encounters asylum conditions
Encountering Segregation
Exchange Examples
Christianity within the ” New World “
Fur Exchange MN
Exchange during protests
Atmosphere
Religion
Galileo- Going through the World, Encountering Resistance
Exploring Disease: Jonas Salk and also the Polio Vaccine
Asking the best questions to get at a subject:
Who had been involved?
That which was their goal?
Do you know the two sides?
Exploring Technology:
Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Empire
Technology
Brigham Youthful, Mormonism, and Westward Expansion

Science
Medicine
Encountering backwoods: Save the Redwood League
Occasions
When we didn’t find the moon while seeking space, the Soviets might have won the Cold War.
Impact/what exactly?
Artists
Musicians
Subject should be ever
Search for connections with other E’s
Consider connections
Exploration results in encounters
Encounters result in exchange
Don’t need to be within this order
Culture
Goods
Food
Ideas
Disease
Gunfire
What’s the impact from the exchange?
What altered due to the encounter?
Exactly what do we all know due to an exploration?
Personal connection!
Current Occasions
Overusing theme words
Selecting a side
Not creating any conclusion