Thinking Like A Historian

decade: ten years :: century : _____

• 1000 years

• a lot of years

• 100 years

• 10,000 years

Mr. Smith went to the library and took out a book for researching the Roman Empire. Mr. Smith is most likely a _______.

• doctor

• vegetarian

• point of view

• historian

Rudy Riptide is a famous news reporter. On his latest assignment, he was in NYC reporting on a new bridge being being constructed out of Playdough. He took a ton of pictures and write a news story. He produced a _________

• primary source

• secondary source

• effect

• cause

Middle school teacher, Ms. Martin, heard about a new bridge in San Diego that is made entirely out of Playdough. She researched this information and then she created a Google Slides presentation to show her students. She has never been to this city in California but she did find a pretty funny comic. Her the comic image is a ____________.

• primary source

• secondary source

• chronological order

• century

This is an example of a/an_________.

• century

• primary source

• historical fiction

• timeline

Which definition fits the underlined term BEST: chronological order?

• the way someone looks at an issue, event, or a person

• a time period of 100 years

• a sequence of events in the order that they happened

• an event or action that makes things happen

Which of the following is the BEST definition for this underline term: cause?

• the way someone looks at an issue, event or person

• a sequence of events in the order that they happened

• an event that is the result of something else happening

Carly Carnival has a ton of social studies homework. She needs to read a chapter on the Roman Empire. Her history book contains topics and subtopics, diagrams, bold vocabulary words, an image of the Colosseum, and a timeline of emperors. We can BEST describe her book as having:

• text features

• primary sources

• lots of stuff

• text structures

1. A chapter that is organized by cause and effect

2. A paragraph that explains the Great Wall of China in chronological order

3. An article that uses compare and contrast of Greek and Roman gods

These are examples of different types of :

• point of view

• text structures

History is _____________.

• the study of middle school social studies

• writing a paragraph about cells

• the study of events that happened in the past

• the way someone looks at a person, an issue, or and event