Interpreting History

1. Teacher Notes
2. Student Notes
3. How Do You See It?
4. Primary or Secondary Sources of Information
5. Social Scientists and the Rosetta Stone
6. Research Project
7. Quiz
8. Answer Keys

1. Interpretations of events may vary depending on personal experience, location, time, and worldview.
2. Worldview includes personal beliefs, perspectives, and actions.
3. Historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and geographers are social scientists who study various sources to develop interpretations about the past including how people interacted with each other and the land.
4. Primary sources are original records from the time and place of the event.
5. Secondary sources, such as textbooks, are accounts of times and places based on interpretations and summaries of primary sources.
6. Advancements in technology provide new information about artifacts found at historic sites.
7. Anthropologists study groups of people to better understand their origins, cultures, beliefs, and customs.
8. Historians study and share interpretations of history by building on the findings of previous scholars.
9. Social scientists recognize that civilizations and empires have been built on lands of Indigenous populations around the world.
10. Interpretations of history are informed by multiple perspectives and can evolve through the work of social scientists.
11. Social scientists use research processes to study people, places, and events.

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