Introduction to history

What is history?

• It's not a science

• Everything that happened in the past

• An old photograph, a book, a painting

• Something that someone told you at playground time

A person who studies history is ...

• A very wise person

• An archeologist

• A historian

• A fan of old books

Objects that give us information about the past. They can be photos, paintings, written documents, buildings, or objects that people used in the past.

• Historical research

• Historical things

• Historical sources

• Histories historical

things that people made or wrote during the time in history you’re learning about – like a coin, or a diary

• Secondary sources

• I don´t know

• Sources

• Primary sources

are things that were written after an event has happened, by people who weren’t there at the time - like a history textbook.

• Not any sources

• Historical sources

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

To measure recent events we use

• Decades centuries, milleniums

• Minutes, seconds, hours

• Non of them are true

Draw a primary source of information

To measure older events we use ...

• Years,decades, centuries, millenium

• Minutes, seconds, hours

• A calendar

• A diary

A decade is made up of ...

• ten years

• hundred years

• thousand years

• five years

A century is made up of

• Ten years

• Hundred years

• Thousand years