Action or thing you do regularly that you choose to do. Many Muslim people fast (do not eat) during the daytime during the month of Ramadan.

Idea, belief, opinion about how one should live. Usually begins with , "It is important to.... Or "You should...." For example: "You should not judge others too harshly. Try to be open-minded."

Object or thing created by human hands. Not food. Not living things. Not dead things. THINGS MADE BY PEOPLE.

Anything that can or does give information.Teachers; Books; CD's; TV documentaries;Newspaper articles, etc.

Old written source created from the time being studied. For example: Your birth certificate from 11 years ago; Your great-great-grand Mother's diary from 1894; George Washington's letter to his soldiers from 1773.

Information source, book or explanation or video, etc., written or created years later about a time long ago. For example: The Discovering Our Past Social Studies; a biography; an expert´s website.

Story of the past pieced together from artifacts and sources. Historians use historical thinking to evaluate evidence from multiple viewpoints, to find out what really happened. ¨Someone who does history is like a police detective. She uses artifacts to discover how people lived in the past. Historians write secondary sources."

Information and stories passed down from parent to child over many generations, by word of mouth. "Many Native Americans did not having writing. So, they taught their children with oral history.¨

Person who excavates (digs up) artifacts and sites from old civilizations to understand how the people of that civilization or society lived.

To dig up old artifacts. Tools used include trowels, brushes, sieve or sifter, magnetometer, total station, drone and satellite cameras.

In history, this involves finding out about the origins of a document--who wrote it, when, why, etc.

In history, this involves, asking if a document or source is trustworthy or believable.

In history, this involves get more proof to show that something, in fact, is true or did happen. Does another source agree or disagree with the first source?

Deciding how information or data fits in with the overall story or history you are writing.