Historical Thinking Skills
What are detectives?
Historians who study the past are often compared to these people because they investigate clues.
What are oral histories?
These are interviews with people who experienced an event in the past.
This is information gathered from different sources to support a claim.
Answer: What is data?
What are primary sources?
Sources created by people who experienced an event are called these.
These scientists excavate and study items left behind by people.
Answer: Who are archaeologists?
What is analytical thinking?
This type of thinking examines cause and effect.
What are artifacts?
Man-made objects that help us learn about the past are called these.
The U.S. Census is conducted every this many years.
Answer: What is 10 years?
Textbooks and encyclopedias are examples of this type of source.
What are secondary sources?
These experts use maps and statistics to study the world.
Answer: Who are geographers?
What is chronological order?
A timeline lists events in this order.
What is a fact?
A statement that can be proven true with evidence is called this.
What is a line graph (line plot)?
A graph that shows changes over time using connected points is this type.
An interview with a grandparent about their life could be this type of source.
Answer: What is a primary source?
Historians use these to understand the past and support claims.
Answer: What are primary sources?
What is comparing?
Examining how two things are alike is called this.
What is bias?
Favoring one belief or opinion over another is called this.
This branch of data collection officially counts the population of the United States.
Answer: What is the census?
A biography of Harriet Tubman would be classified as this type of source.
Answer: What is a secondary source?
These specialists study the relationship between resources and production.
Answer: Who are economists?
How do historians organize time on timelines?
Historians use B.C.E. and C.E. to help organize this.
Rufus Putnam created this Ohio resource in 1804 using Harris's journals.
Answer: What is a map of Ohio?
GIS stands for this technology used to visualize data on maps.
Answer: What is Geographic Information Systems?
A newspaper article written during an event is usually this type of source.
Answer: What is a primary source?
Political scientists often use these to measure public views on issues.
Answer: What are public opinion polls?