Historical Thinking

In the article, Thinking Like a Historian, historians use different forms of __________ to find answers to their questions.

• Questions

• Answers

• Evidence

• Problems

Why do historians identify, select, analyze, and evaluate sources?

• To understand the past

• To complete school assignments

• To fill their free time

In the article, Primary and Secondary Sources, what do we call sources that are made by people who did not see or experience events themselves?

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

• Historian sources

What do we call sources that are created by people who saw or experienced an event?

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

• Historian sources

In the article, How Do We Examine Sources?, we found out that historians analyze sources to

• Be confident in them

• Have fun

• Take to school

Which of the following questions would help a historian learn more about the source?

• When the source was created

• Who made the source

• How the source was created

• All the above

In the article, Multiple Perspectives, what is one way the article says we can have a deeper understanding of what happened in the past?

• Go to a museum

• Write primary source

• Look at multiple perspectives

What does perspective mean?

• What historians say

• Way of seeing things

• What historians collect

In the article, Life for Children in the 1920s, what did many children do instead of going to school?

• Work

• Home school

• Photographed

• Babysit

What was a place many children worked in the 1920s?

• National parks

• Playgrounds

• Cotton mills