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Collaborate With Us!
The primary purpose of this wiki is to promote collaboration among social studies teachers in the Houston area. Join us on our quest to learn and teach each other as we educate our students. Our first big project will be the National History Day Competition. Here you will find all sorts of information about having a successful National History Day history fair at your school. Click the button at the top to join this wiki so you can add your own ideas.

**Resources**
HISD has an amazing array of **online research resources** for you and your students. Make sure you begin here when doing any research project.
 * === [|HISD Online Resources] ===


 * [|Time Toast - http://www.timetoast.com/]
 * [|Our Story - http://www.ourstory.com/]
 * [|Teachnology - http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/]
 * [|Read Write Think Timeline - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/]
 * [|Free Timeline - http://www.free-timelinhttp://hisdsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/e.com/timeline.jsp]

National History Day Page

 * [|The National History Day Site]
 * 2011 Theme Page
 * [|The Texas National History Day Site]
 * Texas Sample Topics
 * Full Theme Book -NHD theme book
 * Web Site Entries
 * Rules and regulations can be found here - []
 * Students create their website here - []
 * Example of a Weebly NHD site - [|http://nhdexample1.weebly.com/index.htm]