Enduring Issues
Enduring Issues
Historical Thinking
Sources
History Skills
100

Wildfires in California and flooding in New York City are examples of this enduring issue.

What is environmental impact?

100

A serious disagreement or argument; examples include arguing with your brother or WWII.

What is conflict?

100

An account of the past constructed from evidence.

What is history?

100

A person or group who created a source.

What is an author?

100

These are the three components of a historical argument?

What are claim, evidence, and explanation or reasoning? 

200

Occurs when more people are born than die

What is population growth?

200

A challenge or problem that has been debated or discussed across time.


What is an enduring issue?

200

This is shaped by evidence, life experience and motives, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, ideas, gender, and other factors.

What is point of view?

200

A document created based on primary sources and the work of other authors.

What is secondary source?

200
Each one of these rewrites history.

What is generation?

300

The 24 second shot clock and Teslas are an example of this enduring issue.

What is innovation?

300

With this one person or group of people do not have as much power or opportunity as others.

What is inequity? 

300

Something historians use to learn about the past.

What is a source?

300

The Autobiography of Malcolm X would be an example of this type of source.

What is primary?

300

This gives you the background of an event and answers the questions 'when did it happen,' 'where did it happen,' 'what led to it,' and 'why did it happen when and where it took place?'

What is context?

400

During Spring 2020 stores did not have enough toilet paper, hand sanitizer, or masks.

What is scarcity?

400

Influence or control over the behavior of people

What is desire for power?

400

A strong and one-sided opinion that is based more on emotion than in evidence.

What is bias?

400

The 2012 documentary The Central Park Five is an example of this type of source.

What is a secondary source?

400

Historians do this to understand multiple points of view of an event to get closer to uncovering what actually happened.

What is corroborate? 

500

Examples include Christianity and Hinduism as well as Socialism and Capitalism.

What are ideas and beliefs? 

500

Components of the iPhone come from companies in South Korea, China, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, India, and many other countries, including the United States.

What is interconnectedness? 

500

Something that prevents a source from being reliable.

What is a limitation?

500

The act of using symbols and notes to show what you are thinking while you read.

What is annotating? 

500

An opinion supported by evidence.

What is a claim?