History, Archaeology, and Culture

The way of life of a people. Everything and anything that people choose to do: food eaten, clothing worn, religion practiced, art created, sports played, buildings made, customs practiced, values held/followed.

• Culture

• HIstorian

• Artifact

• Custom

• Archeologist

Action or thing you do regularly that you choose to do. Many Muslim people fast (do not eat) during the daytime during the month of Ramadan.

• Artifact

• Value

• Oral History

• Custom

• Primary Source

Idea, belief, opinion about how one should live. Usually begins with , "It is important to.... Or "You should...." For example: "You should not judge others too harshly. Try to be open-minded."

• Artifact

• Value

• Secondary Source

• Contextualization

• Primary Source

Object or thing created by human hands. Not food. Not living things. Not dead things. THINGS MADE BY PEOPLE.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Sourcing

• Artifact

• History

Anything that can or does give information.Teachers; Books; CD's; TV documentaries;Newspaper articles, etc.

• Source

• Archaeology

• Sourcing

• Oral History

• Culture

Old written source created from the time being studied. For example: Your birth certificate from 11 years ago; Your great-great-grand Mother's diary from 1894; George Washington's letter to his soldiers from 1773.

• Oral History

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Custom

• Corroboration

Information source, book or explanation or video, etc., written or created years later about a time long ago. For example: The Discovering Our Past Social Studies; a biography; an expert´s website.

• Sourcing

• Archaeology

• Primary Source

• Corroboration

• Secondary Source

Story of the past pieced together from artifacts and sources. Historians use historical thinking to evaluate evidence from multiple viewpoints, to find out what really happened. ¨Someone who does history is like a police detective. She uses artifacts to discover how people lived in the past. Historians write secondary sources."

• Contextualization

• Culture

• Archaeology

• History

• Sourcing

Information and stories passed down from parent to child over many generations, by word of mouth. "Many Native Americans did not having writing. So, they taught their children with oral history.¨

• Corroboration

• Oral History

• Secondary Source

• History

• Value

Person who excavates (digs up) artifacts and sites from old civilizations to understand how the people of that civilization or society lived.

• Archaeology

• Archeologist

• History

• Magnetometer

• Artifact