American National History Day And The Cultivation Of Students’ Ability Of Historical Evidence

The American National History Day is an academic contest in addition to the teaching of history.It also follows the requirements of the curriculum standards of American history or social sciences and works closely with the classroom teaching.It attaches great importance to the use of historical materials,requiring the participants to use historical materials in their creation and submit their works with instructions on the creation process and annotated references to prove the use of historical materials.Participants need to collect and analyze historical materials,using historical data to conclude their opinions and conclusions.In the collection of historical materials,participants should collect a wealth of primary and secondary historical materials,including written historical materials,images historical materials,oral historical materials and other forms of historical materials.In terms of the analysis and use of historical materials,the participants strive to identify and verify historical materials as historians do,sort and analyze historical materials,and finally demonstrate the topic and draw a conclusion.In the process of analyzing and using historical materials to “make history”,the participants’ historical research ability will constantly improved,especially the empirical ability of historical materials.Meanwhile,their critical thinking ability and innovative spirit are also improved to a certain extent.With the development of national history day competition and internationalization,its influence is more and more far-reaching.First,enrich the history teaching methods of American middle schools.The combination of National History Day and classroom teaching has become increasingly close.History teachers guide students to participate in the competition in their teaching,and the teaching methods are becoming more flexible and diverse.Second,improve the participants’ historical research ability.By participating in the competition,the participants’ historical research ability to collect,analyze and solve problems with historical materials is generally better than that of non-participating students of the same age.In a word,National History Day has changed the teaching of history teachers and the learning of students.Its influence has gradually gone to the world,attracting the middle school students from many countries to participate in the competition,and arousing the attention and research of some scholars.The requirements of National History Day for historical materials are in common with the evidence of historical materials in the core competence of Chinese middle school history.The process of collecting,analyzing and using historical materials to complete the works can provide a reference for the empirical implementation of historical evidence in the core competence of Chinese middle school history.For example,students are encouraged to make use of resources such as libraries,archives and museums to collect historical materials and solve historical problems through independent analysis anda the use of historical materials in exploratory studies or history competitions.