What is History?

What is History?

• The study of Geography

• The study of the past- of fictional events and people

• The study of the past- of real people and real events

• The study of plants and animals

Name the 3 "places" you can look to find stories of the past.

What is archaeology?

• The study of history through sticks and stones

• The study of history through artifacts, bones, and ruins

• The study of history through arcs and bridges

• The study of history through a lot of late night reading

Historians are like detectives because they try to find...

• clues
• stories

• people

• relics

What are the 5w's and h?

• Who, What, Whistle, Why, Whoa, and Hello

• What, Would, Wyatt, Wear, While, Hopping

• Who, What, Where, When, Why, Hippo

• Who, What, Where, When, Why, How

What are two different kinds of sources from which we can learn history?

• Formative and Summative

• Informational and Fictional

• Primary and Secondary

• First and Second

______________ is the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

 

• timeline
• sequence
• chronicle
• chronology

What are two specific examples of primary sources?

• Movies, Internet

• Movies, Textbooks

• Paintings, Manuals

• Diaries, Artifacts

What are two specific examples of secondary sources?

• Movies, Biographies

• Documents, Cave Drawings

• Photographs, Artifacts

• Journals, Autobiographies

Why is it a good idea for historians to use many sources?

• To tell fact from opinion

• A story can change with the storyteller

• To have a chance to talk to and read about some great people

• It looks good on paper