HISTORY 6 - WEEK 2- LESSONS 2-5

What is History?

• Books

• Evidence

•  History is an account of the past.

• Movies

What do historians rely on in order to learn about the past?

• Story books

• Movies

• Gossip

• Evidence

By studying history what can we learn?

• How the past has influenced life today, and more importantly, how we can shape our future. 

  
  

• how the future has influenced life today, and more importantly, how we can shape our past. 

  
  

• how the past has not influenced life today, and more importantly, how we don't want to shape our future. 

  
  

• None of these answers.

primary source:

• an artifact that was created during the last week.

• an artifact that was created during the time of an event in the past.

• the process of asking questions and looking for answers about a certain time and place in history

  
  

• none of these answers

inquiry:

• digging up artifacts

• the process of asking questions and looking for answers about a certain time and place in history

  
  

• writing the answers to questions you have already researched.

• none of these answers

the clues found in primary and secondary sources that prove what happened in the past

an object made or used by people in the past

the personal beliefs or a preference for a specific belief

• inquiry

• evidence

• bias

• artifacts

Many history classes learn by using textbooks. What kind of source would that be?

• Primary

• Secondary

• Third

Which of the answers below is NOT a Primary Source?

• National Geographic magazine article

• Diary

• 1900's Buffalo Nickel

• Live video footage