Historical Thinking Skills Vocabulary

____________ is the information that can prove your point or support your answer.

• Bias

• Evidence

• Significance

• Point of view

What does evaluate mean?

• To examine something carefully in order to identify its most important elements or factors

• To compare in order to make differences clear.

• To determine the value, worth, or importance of something

• To note or describe the similarities or differences of.

A person who writes about or studies the past

• Source

• Context

• Historian

Historical thinking is....

• not what we know but HOW we know it

• not how we know but WHY we know it

What is evidence?

• The study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of artifacts.

• To compare in order to make differences clear.

• Something that creates proof, or disproves something else

• To note or describe the similarities or differences of.

The different videos from 9/11 survivors showed multiple _______________ of that fateful day.

• evaluations

• perspectives

• analysis

__________ means to prefer or favor one person, group, thing, or point of view more than others

• Analyze

• Perspective

• Bias

• Source

Multiples perspectives _______

• help us get an accurate picture of the past

• locate events and sources in time and space

• are original documents and objects created at the time of study

• identify and answer questions about where a source came from

Another way to say perspective is....

• facts

• discovery

• point of view

• examine

Any person, place, or thing that supplies information; in history class they might be documents or pictures

• Source

• Context

• Historian