Historical Thinking Skills

To look for things that may be similar or things that may be different.

Buscar cosas que puedan ser similares o cosas que puedan ser diferentes.

• Periodization

• Context

• Comparison

To find more than one cause and/or effect of a historical event

Para encontrar más de una causa y / o efecto de un evento histórico.

• Causation

• Evidence

• Continuity and Change

To explain the order in which historical events happened

Explicar el orden en que ocurrieron los eventos históricos.

• Comparison

• Periodization

• Context

To explain how one historical event connects another historical event or time period

Explicar cómo un evento histórico conecta con otro evento histórico o período de tiempo.

• Context

• Continuity & Change

• Evidence

To find and explain patterns of what changed and what stayed the same within a time period

Encontrar y explicar patrones de lo que cambió y lo que se mantuvo igual dentro de un período de tiempo.

• Context

• Continuity and Change

• Causation

To learn by asking questions through research using primary and secondary sources.

• Comparison

• Periodization

• Evidence

What question best helps us think about Comparison?

• How did the event impact peoples’ lives?

• How is the past different OR similar from the present?

• How do periods of history start and end?

What question best helps us think about Context?

• Where did the event take place, and what are the characteristics of that place?

• How is the past different OR similar from the present?

• How did these sources influence your view of history?

What question best helps us think about Periodization?

• What changed, and what caused the change?

• Where did the event take place?

• What characteristics define this period of history?

What question best helps us think about Continuity and Change?

• What changed, and what caused the change?

• How do periods of history start and end?

• How did the event impact peoples' lives?