6th Grade - What Is History

millennium

1,000 years

Why study history?

1. Learning about the past helps us understand the present. 2. Conflict and cooperation are examples we can learn from. 3. Understand cause/effect 4. Improve our future from our mistakes. 5. Culture.

How to do quality research?

1. Look for authorship and credentials 2. Web URL's (gov, edu, org) 3. Look for plagiarism (no credit)

How to make conclusion

1. look for facts and evidence in their primary and secondary sources 2. Use reasoning 3. Make a final decision

Decade

10 years

Century

100 years

Historian

A person who studies the past (history)

Interpretation

An opinion or the way a person look at the world; should be based on facts and evidence

What does A.D. stand for and when they are used?

Anno domini "in the year of the lord". It is used after Christ was born

What does B.C. stand for and when they are used?

Before Christ, used before christ was born

Secondary sources

Created after an event, created by people not part of historical event

What is history?

History is the study of the people and events of the past. History explores both the way things change and the way things stay the same, and the ways that cultures change.

bias and why is it a problem?

Is an unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events. It iis a problem in a historical source because it can't be trusted

Artifacts

Objects created and used by humans.

Fossils

Preserved remains of once-living organisms

Julian Calendar?

Started counting @the founding of Rome Lost days quickly Developed by Julius Caesar lost days every 128 years

Unreliable internet sources

WIKIPEDIA - Opinion-expresses attitude

Timeline?

another way to track the passage of time (to track a period of time between when you were born and when you die)

Primary sources

firsthand pieces of evidence, they were written or created by the people who saw or experienced an event

eras

larger blocks of time

Similarities between calenders?

leap years sometime loses a day

Reliable internet sources

look at extention, page sponsor, date update, author listed Facts - expresses only what can be proven by evidence. Dictionary, Internet books

Evidence

something that shows proof or an indication that something is true

Gregorian Calender?

start from birth of Jesus Loses days very slowly Developed by Pope Gregory XIII 1,000 years to lose a day Modern day calender

Paleontology

study fossils to learn what the world was like long ago (fossils)

Anthropology

study of human culture and how it develops over time. (fossils, artifacts, values, beliefs)

Archaeology

study of the past by looking at what people left behind (artifacts)

Calendar

system for arranging days in order

Playgiarize

to present the ideas or words of another person as your own without offering credit to the source