Checking Sources Against Each Other
Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not
Lesson
Set out your lesson
“Checking Sources Against Each Other means checking whether two sources agree on facts, and thinking why they might differ. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Two short accounts of the same family/school event (or two adult retellings)
- T-chart: Agree / Disagree
Extra for the adult
Worked example. Both say it rained. Only one remembers a bus. They may disagree because one person arrived later.
Optional challenge. For Checking Sources Against Each Other, invent a third source that could settle a disagreement.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: agree/disagree list; reason; supported fact; support used. This session samples corroboration, not mastery of source criticism.
Share and support
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Practice this concept
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Compare accounts and spot agreed facts.
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Educator Resources
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Check understanding
- Compare two accounts of the same event (e.g. two family members' stories or two short sources) and list the facts on which they agree and disagree
- Suggest a reason two sources disagree (e.g. one writer was not there, or remembered it years later)
- Decide which facts are best supported because more than one source agrees, and explain why
“If two relatives tell your child different versions of the same family story, can they work out which details both agree on and suggest why the stories differ?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Historical Thinking
- Age range
- Ages 8–10