Vocabulary
This is a source created by someone who experienced the event firsthand.
What is a primary source?
A diary written during WWII.
Primary
Someone who studies and writes about the past.
Who is a historian?
What is your favorite class?
What is Social Studies?
The first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This type of source interprets or analyzes other sources.
What is a secondary source?
A history textbook about WWII.
Secondary
This is what historians create when they put together evidence to form a story of the past.
What is history?
This is something you carry every day to school that could become a primary source of your life.
What is your school ID or phone?
Who is the President of Mexico?
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
This is a statement or opinion supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
A TikTok video filmed during a protest yesterday.
Primary
When historians disagree, it’s often because they have different __.
What are perspectives or points of view?
When you compare a past event to something happening today, you are making this kind of connection.
What is a connection between past and present?
This country built the pyramids at Giza.
What is Egypt?
This explains why the evidence supports the claim.
What is reasoning?
A biography of Harriet Tubman written in 2020.
Secondary
Before writing a book, historians must gather this from primary and secondary sources.
What is evidence?
Celebrating holidays, traditions, or family stories is one way history connects to this part of your identity.
What is culture?
The video game where you can build with blocks and fight Creepers.
What is Minecraft?
When someone’s point of view is influenced by personal opinions or experiences, it’s called this.
What is bias?
A newspaper published the day after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Primary
When making a claim, historians back it up with these two things we’ve practiced using in class.
What is evidence and reasoning?
One reason we study history is so we don’t repeat __.
What are past mistakes?
This series has Hogwarts, Harry, and a dark wizard named Voldemort.
What is Harry Potter?