Historical Thinking skills

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

To find out:

• Identify

• Hypothesize

• Evaluate

• Analyze

Evaluate

• to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

• investigate

• to examine / judge carefully

• discover/reveal

Evidence

• proof

• disagreements

• discover/reveal

• examine/judge carefully

An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, or other source of information created at the time of study is a .... 

• Primary Source
• Secondary Source  

Which document is a secondary source? 

• Research findings on video gaming's effects
• Population statistics from the U.S Census Bureau  
• An almanac 
• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address  

When analyzing sources, what should you read first? 

• Source information
• Context information 
• Content information 
• Corroborate information

Why should we study history? 

• Learn about our past (ancestors, culture, advancements, leaders)
• Learn from our mistakes
• Create a better future
• All of the options are correct.

Which of the following is a con of a primary source?

• Multiple perspectives presented
• Real human emotions
• Too many historical voices
• Usually biased