Teacher Resources The NHD program provides teachers with resource materials, workshops, and other opportunities for professional development. Benefits for Teachers National History Day: gives teachers a model teaching tool for the classroom, based on active learning helps teachers meet the requirements of national and state history standards provides an excellent assessment tool for classroom use helps teachers integrate the study of history with other disciplines, including writing, the arts, and other social sciences supplies curricular aids such as lesson plans and bibliographic guides supports professional development by offering workshops and summer institutes where teachers can learn about the latest in historical scholarship and new teaching methods and techniques encourages teachers to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians Click here to download the 2008 Curriculum Book. NHD Classroom Standards Links to Pennsylvania research resources Links to helpful History sites: Marco Polo Resource site A+ Teen Research site