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Adapted from NoodleTools.com
Did you know?
If you are a teacher or librarian working directly with students on National History Day projects, you can request complimentary access to NoodleTools for a single NHD season!
What is NoodleTools?
NoodleTools is a digital research organizer that comprises integrated tools for citation creation as well as note-taking, outlining, and annotated source evaluation.
How can you and your students use NoodleTools for National History Day?
- Teacher feedback: You can monitor students’ progress in real-time and provide in-context feedback.
- Note-taking and outlining: NoodleTools notecards are specifically designed to make connections, record and develop original ideas, articulate arguments, and avoid accidental plagiarism. The Notecard Tabletop contains organizational features like tagging, labeling, and piling.
- Annotated bibliography: Students can create an accurate annotated bibliography in MLA or Chicago/Turabian style, grouped into primary and secondary sources according to National History Day requirements. They can choose from a broad range of source options, including legal citations. The student’s polished bibliography can be exported to Google Drive or any word processor.
- Source evaluation: Research shows that all students find source identification and evaluation to be especially challenging aspects of the research process. “Show Me” online teaching modules guide students in identifying source types, including primary sources, and in assessing the relevance and credibility of information.
- Group collaboration: For an exhibition, performance, documentary, or website project, student teams can work simultaneously on the group’s notecards and citations and view each other’s changes in real time.
- Differentiated levels: Students have an option to select either the Junior or Advanced/Senior level of NoodleTools based on their self-assessed proficiency and their National History Day division. Each level includes appropriate help for identifying, evaluating, and citing sources.
Please note:
- Only one NoodleTools account should be requested per school. If several teachers at the school are mentoring NHD projects, one request should be made to cover those teachers.
- This complimentary subscription can be used by all NHD teacher mentors and student participants within the school for the specific and sole purpose of creating National History Day projects.
Click here to request complimentary access for NHD or here to learn more about NoodleTools.
