Learning about the Past: Lesson 01: Learning about the Past

Archaeologist prevent the site, findings, and information learned from the site from being lost or damaged.

• Survey

• Excavate

• Recording

• Sharing information

• Preservation

Archaeologists remove earth carefully and systematically from an area to find remains.

• Preservation

• Recording

• Excavation

• Survey

• Sharing information

___ study history and are considered an authority on the past

• Historians

• Pharmacists

• Taxidermists

• Astrologists

Artifacts, man-made objects of cultural and/or historical significance, are ___.

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

___ are man-made objects of cultural and/or historical significance (such as simple tools, pottery, jewelry, or clothing).

• Artifacts

• Anarchists

• Economists

• Ecofacts

Big ideas in history, such as human-human interaction, human-environmental interaction, political structures, economics, culture and social structures, and science and technology.

• Themes

• Effects

• Causes

• Inquiry Process

Prejudice for or against someone or something

___ are written or created by a person who saw a historical event firsthand (such as letters, diaries, speeches, photographs, and drawing).

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

___ are written or created by a person who did not see the event (such as textbooks, biographies or journal articles).

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

Study of past events, particularly the study of past events in regards to people.