Module 1: Lesson 1

What is the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people called?

• History

• Archaeology

• Culture

• Fossil

What is an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event called?

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Artifact

• Fossil

What do historians try to learn about?

• Future events

• Fictional stories

• Problems people faced and how they found solutions

• Modern technology

What do archaeologists explore to learn about how people lived?

• Places where people once lived, worked, or fought

• Modern cities

• Fictional stories

• Future predictions

What do historians want to know about people?

• How they lived and why they did the things they did

• Future predictions

• Fictional stories

• Modern technology

What are fossils?

• Tools, coins, or pottery

• Bones or footprints preserved in rock

• Written sources from 5,000 years ago

• Primary sources of information

What are artifacts?

• Bones or footprints preserved in rock

• Written sources from 5,000 years ago

• Tools, coins, or pottery

• Primary sources of information

What is a secondary source?

• Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event

• Information from fossils

• Information from artifacts

• Information written by someone who took part in or witnessed an event

What is the purpose of learning about other people’s stories?

• To understand fossils

• To respect and understand different opinions

• To learn how to write

• To gather primary sources

What does history teach us about cultures that are unlike our own?

• It helps us understand fossils

• It helps us respect and understand different opinions

• It helps us invent new tools

• It helps us write better