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Explore historical trends and multiple perspectives over time, identifying patterns, rules, and details. Learn to analyze and predict changes, relevance, and importance, using critical thinking skills. Understand big ideas, key questions, and how time affects information.
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Over Time Issues of importance past, present and future Applying something historic to present knowledge Predicting something based upon present knowledge
Over Time Applying From Past to Present Noting Change
Thinking Skills Describe the topic over time Judge with Criteria Identify Relationships of a topic Identify different time periods
Thinking Skills Determine relevance of knowing this topic over time Differentiate fact from opinion
Key Questions How are ideas related to the past, present and future? How are these ideas related within or during a particular time period?
Key Questions How has time affected the information? How and why do things change or remain the same?
Big Ideas are: Generalizations. Related to many instances Developed from many facts
Big Ideas are: Overarching concepts. Related to global themes Related to universal themes Principles, laws and theories
Thinking Skills Identify / Describe the Big Idea List the evidence needed to support your idea. Infer from supporting evidence / information
Thinking Skills Generalize What overarching statement best describes what is being studied?
Thinking Skills Identify the main idea What general statement includes what is being studied?
Thinking Skills Categorize / classify Determine relevance Prove with evidence
Multiple Perspectives Are: • Different points of view. • Ways of seeing and reporting things. • Often dependent on time and place.
Multiple Perspectives Are: • Seen from different slants. • Affected by roles and responsibilities. • Myth & legend versus nonfiction.
Thinking Skills • Describe the multiple perspectives on an issue or topic. • Identify relationships among perspectives. • Identify a different point of view and explain it.
Thinking Skills • Use a criteria to judge the various points of view. • Prioritize the most important perspectives. • Determine relevance of various points of view.
Thinking Skills • What perspectives do experts have? • How does point of view affect what we learn. • When is your perspective different from others? Why?
Thinking Skills • Methods for interpreting evidence. • What are opposing viewpoints? • How do different people see this event or situation.
Trends Are: • General directions / course of action • Tendencies • Current styles • Drifts • Influences / forces • Changes over time
Thinking Skills • Describe the trend you are seeing. • Compare and Contrast. • Identify relationships among trends. • Determine Cause and effect.
Thinking Skills • Categorize and classify trends. • Prioritize the most important. • Predict a direction. • Formulate questions
Thinking Skills • Determine the relevance. • Judge the importance of a trend with criteria. • Prove the influence of a trend with evidence. • Formulate questions.
Key Questions • What ongoing factors have influenced this study? • What factors have contributed to this study? • How are other patterns and details related to this?
Key Questions • What causes of action affected the development of ideas about this topic? • What social, political, technological, and popular ideas affected the knowledge about this topic?
Patterns are: • Predictive. • Able to be replicated. • Cycles. • Repetitive
Patterns are: • Made up of details. • Person made and natural designs. • Motifs and recurring elements.
Thinking Skills • Describe the patterns. • Define cause and effect • Prioritize the most important patterns • Categorize and classify patterns
Thinking Skills • Identify relationships among patterns. • Determine the relevance. • Spot sequence of pattern parts. • Use a criteria to judge the importance of a pattern.
Thinking Skills • Seek Patterns of types of documents. • Search for time lines. • Look for great times / great people. • Spot pattern of past / present / future.
Rules are: • Standards • Related to structure • Authoritative directions • Conduct or procedure
Rules are: • Statements of truth (all or most of the time) • Methods • Organizational elements
Thinking Skills • Describe the Rules. • Prioritize the most important rules • Categorize and classify Rules • Identify relationships among rules.
Thinking Skills • Determine the relevance. • Use a criteria to judge the importance of a rule. • Identify the implicit and explicit rules • How do you evaluate rules’ efficiency and validity?
Thinking Skills • How are rules related to patterns and details? • Compare structural rules to procedural rules. • Differentiate fact from opinion • Differentiate fact from fantasy and conjecture
Details are: • Clues, facts, features • Data, ideas, traits • Items, parts particulars • Specifics, elements, factors, attributes
Thinking Skills • Describe the detail. • Prioritize the most important details. • Note ambiguity among details • Categorize / classify details
Thinking Skills • Identify relationships among details. • Determine relevance. • Sequence the details • Select details to determine bias or absence of bias
Thinking Skills • Which details are more important than others? • What is your evidence for this? • What distinguishes this from other things? • What features characterize this?
Unanswered Questions are: • A puzzle or conundrum • Unsolved / unknown • Something unexplained • A dilemma • Doubtful or uncertain
Thinking Skills • Describe / state an unanswered question. • Note ambiguity • Distinguish fact from fiction • Formulate questions.
Thinking Skills • Identify missing information • Test assumptions • Prove the importance with evidence • Prove the validity with evidence