Category 1: Map Lines & Directions
The imaginary circle halfway between the North and South Poles at 0° latitude.
Answer: What is the Equator?
What is Mr. Velazco's favorite beverage in the classroom?
What is water
A diagram that shows when events took place during a given period of time.
Answer: What is a Timeline?
A document or physical object written or created during the time under study.
Answer: What is a Primary Source?
Asking questions about who created a source, when, why, and from what perspective.
Answer: What is Sourcing?
The line designated at 0° longitude that passes through Greenwich, England
Answer: What is the Prime Meridian?
This animal or figure is the mascot of the college where Mr. Velazco earned his bachelor's degree.
What is a banana slug
The year George Washington became the first president of the United States.
Answer: What is 1789?
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
Answer: What is a Secondary Source?
Studying words and sentences very carefully like a detective to understand the text.
Answer: What is Close Reading?
A direction based on the fixed cardinal points of North, South, East, and West.
Answer: What is Absolute Direction?
What colleges did Mr. Velazco graduate from?
What is UCSC and Santa Clara University.
In 1793, George Washington issued this important document.
Answer: What is the Proclamation of Neutrality?
The study of material evidence and physical artifacts of past human life.
Answer: What is Archeology?
The background information and situation that helps us understand a historical event better.
Answer: What is Context (or Contextualization)?
Culturally based and locationally variable directions, such as "Near East" or "Far East".
Answer: What is Relative Direction?
What is one of Mr. Velazco's favorite franchise movies?
What is Transformers or Scream
According to the timeline, this event happened directly before Washington died in 1799.
Answer: What is Washington retires to Mount Vernon (in 1797)?
The quality of a source being trusted and believed in.
Answer: What is Credibility?
Confirming that a historical fact or statement is true.
Answer: What is Corroboration?
The two halves of the Earth divided by the Equator or Prime Meridian.
Answer: What are Hemispheres?
What part of San Jose did Mr. Velazco grow up?
What is EAST SIDE SAN JOSE
Who is on the quarter?
George Washington
The official White House portrait painting of Michelle Obama created in 2008 is an example of this source type.
Answer: What is a Primary Source?
The arrangement of events in the order of time.
Answer: What is Chronology?