Studying History
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Bellwork – YOU DO NOT NEED A
SMALL PIECE OF PAPER TODAY
1. Write your homework in your agenda
2. Have your plastic folder out and ready to
use
3. Copy your word wall words in your
plastic folder.
4. Please have out your history notebook
(composition notebook)
Word Wall Words
history
culture
archaeology
archaeologist
anthropologist
geography
geographer
anthropology
historian
BCE
CE
prehistory
primary source
secondary source
artifact
fossil
social scientists
Essential Question 1
#1: How do social scientists use clues to
understand how people lived in the past?
Studying History
Why and how we look at the past.
What is history?
History – the study of the past
Anything that has happened in the past is now
history.
Who studies the past?
Social scientists – scholars who study
human society. Examples –
archaeologists, historians, geographers,
anthropologists
Historians
People who study and record human
activity in the past
How
Why
Problems
Solutions
Culture – knowledge, beliefs, customs, and
values of a group of people
Tools of a historian
Primary sources
Diaries, interviews, photographs
Secondary sources
Textbooks, newspaper articles
Archaeologists
People who study the past based on what
people left behind.
Explore the places where people once lived,
worked, or fought.
Find and examine artifacts
Geographers
People who study the natural and humanmade features of the Earth as well as the
culture of the people of the Earth
Help create maps
Physical, historical, political, etc.
Anthropologists
People who study human development
and culture.
How people grow and develop
How culture is created
Why study history?
Know self
Know others
Know world