Bell Work

1. What is the difference between a historian and archaeologist?

2. What is the difference between primary and secondary sources?

3. Extension: What is the term used when referring to 10 years? 100 years?

4. Extension: How do archaeologists measure the date of something?

Using Clues We rely on a variety of sources to learn

history.

– Fossil remain (bones, footprints)

– Artifacts (coins, pottery)

– Secondary Sources (your history textbook, biography)

– Primary Sources (autobiography, video recording)

Writers of secondary sources don’t always agree about the past. How might

they disagree?

How do fossils and artifacts help teach us about the past?

Think-Pair-Share

Explain what social scientist use to study history.

Primary or Secondary Source

PhotographJournal articlesDiaryEncyclopediasVideo recordingCourt DocumentsMLK Speech

Reviewing and Expanding

Designations for time dating

C, BC, BCE, AD, CE Centuries Decades Prehistoric Historic

Social Scientists and their Studies

Historian Archaeologist Geologist Anthropologists Paleontologist