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Historical thinking concepts

Historical thinking concepts. History?. WHAT? WHY? HOW?. Historical Significance. How do we decide what and whose stories to tell?. Activity #1. Events of History Timeline. Historical Significance. Results in a Change Reveals something about the past or the future

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Historical thinking concepts

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  1. Historical thinking concepts

  2. History? • WHAT? • WHY? • HOW?

  3. Historical Significance How do we decide what and whose stories to tell?

  4. Activity #1 Events of History Timeline

  5. Historical Significance • Results in a Change • Reveals something about the past or the future • Construct- They are meaningful stories that need to be told • Varies from time to time and place to place- history is not fixed it is based on perspectives. (worldview)

  6. Primary Source Evidence How do we Know what we know?

  7. Activity #2 Chart Your History

  8. Primary Source Evidence • Interpretation based on Influences from Primary sources • Ask Good questions- read between the lines • Worldview of the source • Look at the historical setting • Back it up- never stand alone.

  9. Examine Artifacts http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/

  10. Continuity and Change Does change always mean progress?

  11. Activity (BLM: 3.1) Guess the country ???????????????

  12. Continuity or Change?

  13. Continuity or Change?

  14. Continuity and Change • Continuity and change are interwoven • Change is a process with moments of turning points. • Progress and decline are how change happens over time. • Change happens in periods over time.

  15. Timeline of continuityand change Elementary school Middle school High school Change or continuity?

  16. Ethical Dimensions of History What do historical injustices and sacrifices mean for us today?

  17. How can history help us live in the present?

  18. When is a textbook like a movie? • Heroes and Villains • Do you care about certain characters? • Did it inspire you to do something/ make you aware of something/ feel empathy for something or someone?

  19. Ethical Judgment • What are the heroes, villains or victims? How do you know? • What message is the author sending • How do you know?

  20. Ethical dimensions of History • Recognize the implicit and explicit ethical stances in media sources. • Take into account the historical context • Cautious about imposing modern day ethics on past events. • History should inform us to remember and respond to events • Make informed ethical judgments.

  21. Memorials

  22. Assess a memorial • Choose a memorial based on the time period of your class: • - Modern History 1500- Present Age (Grade 11) • - Ancient History- 3500 BCE- 1000 (Grade 10)

  23. Historical Perspective How can we ever understand the past?

  24. Miss Lottie the school teacher

  25. Investigation of the Privy • Choose a partner • Sort clues into categories- example: family, the house, privy contents ect.. • Label each category. • Hypothesize what happened. • Record your findings.

  26. Historical Perspective • Be aware if the difference between worldviews. • Avoid Presentism- present day ideas on the characters of the past. • Understand the historical context. • How did people in the past feel about these events. • Look for diverse perspectives from the actors of the past.

  27. Historical perspective

  28. Cause and Consequence What are the causes that are hidden from view?

  29. Cause and Consequence • Change is driven by multiple causes- long term and short term causes. • Events that causes significant history • Historical actors and economic conditions • Unintended consequences • Events of history was not inevitable.

  30. Cause and consequence Long term causes Vs Short- term causes

  31. Todd Bertuzzi incidentMarch 8th, 2004 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVvLQU_cMo (incident) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWRxppX81E (TSN look back- long term cause) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_p4cpeyS4M (Anniversary of the incident)

  32. Cause and consequence History happens because of both short-term and long term causes. (Revolutions) (Ancient History- Trojan war)

  33. Vancouver anti-Chinese riot of 1887 • This involved the racial attitudes and motivations of the white workers who rampaged. Did the workers cause the riot? In some sense they did. But the causes must be set in the larger context of employers paying Chinese workers a fraction of the regular wage rate and the desperate situation of Chinese Canadian workers after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

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