Checking Sources Against Each Other
Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not
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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.
Materials: Two short accounts of the same family/school event (or two adult retellings); T-chart: Agree / Disagree. 1. Read or hear two short accounts of the same event. 2. List facts that agree and facts that disagree on a T-chart. 3. Suggest one reason they differ (not there; remembered later). 4. Fresh check: child answers one new prompt on the same idea. Record and stop. Done: Ask for one agreed fact. Proof: parent note of examples tried and support used. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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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?”
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- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Historical Thinking
- Age range
- Ages 8–10