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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 3

Sources & Evidence

Primary and secondary sources, context and conclusions

What your child practises

Children practise choosing and judging sources, reading artifacts and art, comparing accounts and drawing conclusions from evidence.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Junior Secondary Social Studies (NWT, 1993), History · choosing, organizing and interpreting sources, planning research, context, evidence and changing interpretations

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A secondary source is…

    • a letter from the time
    • a photo from the time
    • a coin
    • an account based on other sources, made later

  2. Question 2

    Drawing a conclusion means…

    • memorizing dates
    • copying
    • making a judgement based on evidence
    • guessing

  3. Question 3

    A primary source is…

    • written long after by someone else
    • a summary
    • a rumour
    • created by someone who was there at the time

  4. Question 4

    Historians' interpretations can change when…

    • nothing new is found
    • everyone agrees
    • new evidence is discovered
    • old evidence is ignored

  5. Question 5

    Which statement is supported by evidence?

    • Romans had cars
    • Romans never traded
    • Roman roads connected cities, as shown by surviving paved stones
    • Rome had no cities

  6. Question 6

    A museum shows a photo of a street from 1900. What can you analyze?

    • nothing
    • the weather in 2050
    • clothing, buildings and transportation
    • what people thought in 2024

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