Teaching History


History is the study of change and development in society over time. It is about people – how they lived in the past, what they did and what they thought. Historians try to understand the actions of people in the past and to evaluate those actions. This understanding of past actions helps historians to determine what impact the actions had on the present and how it can influence the future. Historians use the things from the past that has remained to study the past – these


things are called sources of information: • Photographs and pictures: Historian ask questions about what they see in old photographs, and what it could mean.


• Objects: Archaeologists help historians. Historians and archaeologists work together to interpret very old objects that people have left behind.


• Oral history: Historians talk to people and ask them questions about life in the past. Historians write their answers down.


• Written sources: Historians use written records from and about the past, such as books, postcards, letters, diaries, and so on.


Grade 4 specific skills for Social Sciences Oxford Successful Social Sciences covers these specific skills, as required by CAPS:


collect, collate, synthesise and organise information, e.g. from text, visual material use more than one kind of written text, e.g. book, newspaper


distinguish important from less important information (relevance/ usefulness to task) compare information recognise bias and different points of view develop own ideas and points of view based on new knowledge take part in discussions and listen with interest explain how and why people and events are publicly remembered ask questions and identify issues use information to describe, explain and answer questions suggest solutions to problems make links between cause and effect; change and continuity acknowledge and appreciate diverse lifestyles and world views 33


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