Topic Choice

Guiding students during topic selection is crucial to the overall success of your students. 

There are three points to consider:

1. The topic must fit the annual theme
2. A student should choose a targeted part of history that they find interesting to capture sustained interest
3. There should be enough primary and secondary sources to be used as evidence to support their argument or claim. 

Student's will need help finding a "Goldilocks Topic" - a topic that is not too big and not too small. Studying the entire American Revolution, for instance, is too vast of a topic. Studying one decision made by General George Washington on one day in the Revolutionary War would likely be too small. Students will need help finding a topic that is “just right.”

Spending enough time on topic selection will ensure that your students are set up for a more successful research process.