Thinking Like a Historian Vocabulary

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: The study of the past

• History

• Geography

• Biology

• Mathematics

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: before

• Pre-

• Post-

• Sub-

• Trans-

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: 10 years

• Decade

• Century

• Millennium

• Year

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: common events occurring around the same time

• Age/Era/Period

• Coincidence

• Randomness

• Singularity

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: 100 years

• Century

• Decade

• Millennium

• Year

Match each vocabulary word with its definition: after

• Post-

• Pre-

• Intra-

• Sub-

If you put something in chronological order, you are putting it in order based on:

• ABC order

• random order

• time order

• how much you already know about it

What is a historian?

• A person who is a Social Studies teacher

• A person who studies history

• A history textbook

• A class in high school

Timelines can be…

• Vertical

• Horizontal

• In a random order

How does chronology help us?

• Providing a sequence of events

• Offering a random collection of facts

• Helps us analyze and learn from past mistakes

• Focusing only on future predictions