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