Historical Thinking Skills

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

• Periodization

• Contextualization

• Comparision

• Synthesis

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

• Causation

• Evidence

• Continuity and Change

• Periodization

To explain the order in which historical events happened

• Comparison

• Periodization

• Contextualization

• Continuity and Change

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

• Context

• Continuity & Change

• Causation

• Periodization

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

• Periodization

• Contextualization

• Causation

• Change and Continuity

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

• Evidence

• Comparison

• Periodization

• Change and Continuity

What question best helps us think about Comparison?

• How did the event impact peoples’ lives?

• How do periods of history start and end?

• How is the past different or similar to the present?

• How does this event affect another?

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 to 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?

• What characteristics define this period of history?

• Where did the event take place?

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?