Thinking Like a Historian: Critical Thinking Skills for Students

Fill in the blank: 'Thinking Like a Historian' encourages students to develop ______ skills.

• Passive

• Critical

• Unquestioning

• Indifferent

Applying skills to ________ is a learning outcome of critical thinking.

• Decision-making

• Painting

• Singing

• Dancing

Fill in the blank: ________ involves a detailed examination of the text to understand its meaning.

• Sourcing

• Contextualizing

• Close Reading

• Corroborating

Which of the following questions helps in understanding the creation of a document?

• Who created it?

• What is its length?

• How is it formatted?

• What color is it?

Which question is essential for understanding the purpose of a document?

• When was it created?

• Why was it created?

• Who created it?

• Where was it created?

Which question should you ask to determine if sources agree on key facts or events?

• Are there any biases that exist?

• Do the sources agree on the key facts or events?

• Is there missing information?

• Are the sources credible?

How does critical thinking improve our abilities?

• By recognizing facts, opinions, and misinformation

• By ignoring facts

• By accepting all opinions as facts

• By spreading misinformation.

Match the following

• Having the "full picture"

• Turning Points

• Certain time where change happened

• Artifacts

• Timeline

• Context

• Separated periods of time

• Eras

• Objects used and created by people

• Chronological Thinking

Which of the terms matches this description: "Understanding the information from a source based on the time and place it came from."

• sourcing
• contextualization
• corroboration
• close reading

____________ is the information that can prove your point or support your conclusion.

• Chronology

• Evidence

• Point of view

• Primary sources