Historical Thinking Skills Test

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

• Sources
• Information
• Places
• things

How people feel/think

• opinion
• fact
• perspective
• corroborate

Things that are proven to be true

• fact
• opinion
• corroborate
• accuracy

What should you do when you provide context?

• Provide background knowledge and perspective to a topic to allow someone else to understand what happened and why.

• Describe what changed over time and what stayed the same.

• Compare and contrast two events from history.

• Provide primary sources for someone to read more about an event.

What is causation (as in cause and effect)?

• determining how one event leads to another

• a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; perspective

• a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

• a conclusion reached based on evidence and inferences

What is continuity and change?

• an account of the past

• acknowledging what stays the same, and what is different, over a period of time

• imagining the time period in which a document was created

• Putting events in sequence and making connections based on related continuity and change

These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

• primary source
• secondary source
• comic book
• coloring book

Which term means point of view?

• values
• opinion
• perspective
• fact

At school we use textbooks to learn about the history? When we use textbooks, what are we using?

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

These sources were present after an experience or time period, but can still offer perspective and information of a particular event.

• primary source

• secondary source

• comic book

• coloring book