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Understanding People in Their Own Time

Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values

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Ask what historical evidence would explain a choice without excusing harm.

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Check understanding

  • Historical Empathy: A Cognitive-Affective Theory (ERIC)
  • Year 4-6 historical empathy research
“If your child learns that people in the past did something that seems wrong today, can they think about why those people might have believed it was normal or right at the time?”

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Type
Meta
Subject
History
Domain
Historical Thinking
Age range
Ages 8–12

Standards

the-ontario-curriculum-language-2023:ON-LANG-2023-G6-C3.7