Thinking Like a Historian Vocabulary and Skills

An artifact or writing created after an event by someone who did not experience the event.

• secondary source

• primary source

• event

• artifact

An object made by humans from a past culture.

• artifact

• fossil

• tool

• technology

Original records produced by the people who participated in and witnessed the past.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A source that was used or created by someone with firsthand experience of an event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

On page (4), what is the name of Lesson (1)?

This person studies people and events of the past.

• Meteorologist

• Historian

• Principal

Why do Historians need a calendar or a timeline?

This shows the order of events (5) ​ (a)  

• timeline

• chronology

________________ means examining the who, what, when, where, and why of a document.

• Sourcing

• Contextualizing

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

Anything that might change a person's observations, ranging from a simple friendship to a dislike of a person or group is _______________.

• evidence

• point of view

• bias

• primary source