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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1

Past and Present Evidence

First graders build a timeline of a life, learn four kinds of sources that tell us about the past (photographs, objects, documents and oral histories), and use evidence from a grandparent's letter to compare school in 1965 with school today.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 55 minutes
  • Sources and evidence: 7 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Use past, present and future, and put events from a person's life in order on a timeline.
  • Identify kinds of historical sources (photographs, objects, documents, oral histories) and what each can tell us.
  • Use evidence from a source to compare life in the past with life today.

Lessons

  1. A timeline of a life 4 steps2 practiceabout 17 min
  2. Kinds of sources 3 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  3. Using evidence: then and now 5 steps2 practiceabout 20 min
  4. Sources and evidence 7 questions at the end

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