21st Century Skills
This is an original object or document from the past used to learn history.
What is a primary source?
A special activity or custom that families do together regularly is called this.
What is a family tradition?
This was a religious settlement built to convert Native Americans in Spanish Texas.
What is a mission?
These Spanish soldier-explorers helped claim land during Texas exploration.
Who are conquistadors?
Traveling to discover new places is called this.
What is exploration?
This type of source provides information created later about past events.
What is a secondary source?
Food, music, language, and celebrations are ways to show this in a community.
What is culture?
This type of fort was built to protect missions and settlements.
What is a presidio?
This word describes a journey taken to discover new places or learn something.
What is an expedition?
Setting up settlements in a new land is called this.
What is colonization?
An old letter or photograph from Texas history is an example of this kind of source.
What is a primary source?
She is the author of the book "In My Family," which we read aloud.
Who is Carmen Lomas Garza?
Spanish settlements were important because they helped Spain claim land and spread this.
What is belief in Christianity?
Explorers affected Texas by starting colonies, claiming land, and changing the lives of these people.
Who are Native Americans?
One reason people came to Texas long ago was to find this or start new lives.
What is God, Gold, or Glory?
Creating charts, maps, or diagrams to show information clearly is called this.
What is using visual representations to communicate information?
These help keep culture and history alive and connect people in Texas communities.
What are family traditions?
Native Americans sometimes did this or resisted when Spanish settlements were built nearby.
What is helped settlers?
In some early Texas colonies, this forced people to work without pay or freedom.
What is slavery?
A person who moves to a new area to live is called this.
This process helps us understand events, people, and causes in history by studying social studies information carefully.
What is analyzing social studies information?
Listening to stories about families helps us understand this about different cultures and communities.
What is history?
Most missions and presidios in Texas were located near these important land features.
What are rivers and land routes?
Unlike settlers who lived in communities, these people traveled to discover new lands.
Who are explorers?
This is an object made or used by people in the past.
What is an artifact?