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One 60-minute lesson
Produced 2007
School-use rights: one year
Grades 7-12 / social studies
Video Library
8/10 SS

Charlie Chaplin is looking for his room assignment. A zoot suiter is warming up on his sax. Benjamin Franklin has just registered and is checking out the competition. It’s Ohio History Day, and more than 600 middle school and high school students from across the state are gathering at The Ohio State University to show what they’ve learned about the relationship between communication and history, the theme of the event.

The WOSU documentary shows that for these students, history is more than something you read about in a textbook. It’s a noisy, vibrant, hands-on exercise that could end with an award and a trip to represent Ohio at the prestigious National History Day in Maryland.