Historical Thinking Flashcards
What do historians do? (5)
(a,s,d,r,s)
Ask questions
Collect information
Develop theories
Read and discuss their ideas
Search for clues that may produce evidence
What are the 6 W’s?
Who
What
When
Where
How
Why
What are 7 different sources you can use for your research/investigation?
(a,c,c,d,o,p,s)
Academic literature/historiographical study
Collections of artifacts
Collaboration
Data analysis
Online and physical archives
Publically accessible records
Significant locations
What can historical evidence be?
Anything, eg, people, idea, belief, etc, etc
What is Stratigraphy?
The study of
rock orders
What is the Law of Superposition?
The bottom layer of the soil
is the oldest and the top
layer is the most recent
What is chronological order?
A way of arranging actions, events or things according to the the time they occured
What is a CT Scan?
medical procedure that takes pictures of the inside of a
body
What is a DNA Analysis?
testing DNA and blood samples to identify links
Anthropologists
Study human development,
including human origin, behavior, and physical, social, and cultural development
Cryptographers
Study, create and decipher codes and writing systems
Scientific Experts
Use the sciences (especially chemistry and biology) and scientific methods (e.g. DNA analysis) to provide evidence about such things as artefacts or
human remains and check their authenticity
Linguists
Study the nature and structure of language, how it has changed over time and the language
styles used in certain types of documents and in particular time periods
Paleontologists
Investigate plant and animal fossils to study the biology of past life forms to work out such things as how the Earth has evolved over time and the nature of plants and animals that have become extinct in the process
