Evidence from the Past
Understand that everything we know about the past comes from evidence that has survived — objects, buildings, pictures, documents and stories — and use clues in that evidence to work out how people lived
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Evidence from the Past means everything we know about the past comes from surviving evidence—objects, buildings, pictures, documents, and stories—and we use clues to work out how people lived. We will sort evidence types, read one clue, then check a fresh clue.
Materials: Five evidence cards: object, building, picture, document, story; One household “clue” object or photo (adult-chosen, safe). 1. Name five evidence types: objects, buildings, pictures, documents, stories. 2. Sort the five cards. Child repeats: evidence that survived teaches us about the past. 3. Study one household clue. Child says one idea about how someone lived. 4. Fresh check: child answers one new prompt on the same idea. Record and stop. Done: Show a fresh clue. Proof: parent note of examples tried and support used. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
Separate a surviving trace, an inference and an unanswered question.
Separate a surviving trace, an inference and an unanswered question.
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Name evidence types and read simple clues.
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Roman Empire
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Roman Empire supports Evidence from the Past. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- Explain that we know about the past from evidence that has survived, such as objects, photos, buildings, documents and stories
- Use clues from an old object or photo to infer how it was used and who might have used it
- Explain why we know less about times or people that left fewer surviving objects or records
“When your child sees an old object like a rotary phone or a washboard at a museum, can they use clues to work out how it was used — and explain that surviving objects like this are how we know about the past?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Historical Thinking
- Age range
- Ages 6–8
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