Fall 2024 Historical Thinking Skills

We are all _________________ because we study and learn history.

• Teachers
• Doctors
• Historians
• Librarians

to put things in the order in which they happened

• composition order

• contextual order

• chronological order

• perspective

Stories from the past constructed from evidence.

• History

• Historian

• Bias

• Perspective

How a person views an event, point of view.

• Bias

• Context

• Perspective

• Timeline

The intentional use of language to present a one sided description.

• Blast

• Bias

• Perspective

• Point of view

Something that gives proof of, or reason to believe something

• history

• evident

• evidence

• history

A diagram that shows the order of events within a period of time.

• time

• era

• BCE

• timeline

Put the following events in chronological order

• 50th birthday party

• 80th birthday party

• First day of High School

• Learning to walk

• First day of kindergarten

A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information.

• bias

• encyclopedia

• source

• historian

A source that is original to the time period or created by someone who witnessed the event is called a

• primary source

• secondary source

• OG source

• best source