Historical Thinking Skills Vocabulary

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

• Bias

• Evidence

• Significance

• Point of view

A person who writes about or studies the past

• Teacher

• Context

• Historian

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

• Analyze

• Fair

• Bias

• Source

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

When different sources say the same thing, it most likely means the information is

• less believable

• more believable

• none of the above

Historians know about historical events ______

• by using different types of evidence

• by using Google

• by talking to old people

The textbook, newspaper, eyewitness and photo are all good _____________ when you want to get information

• Sources
• Information
• Places
• things

If a source is described as "credible," that means

• It can't be trusted

• It's a lie

• It can be trusted

What is history written as a story called?

• Personal Narrative

• Historical Narrative

• Fairy Tale

• Fiction