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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 9

Thinking Like a Historian

Sources, causes and change

What your child practises

Practises the thinking tools used across the empowerment unit: primary and secondary sources, perspective and bias, cause and consequence, continuity and change, and time lines.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Cultural empowerment; Societal empowerment · using sources, perspective, cause and consequence, and continuity and change to study 1830-1920

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

    What is an unintended consequence?

    • a holiday
    • the main goal of an action
    • a type of census
    • a result that no one planned

  2. Question 2

    What is oral history?

    • a painting
    • a law written on paper
    • memories and stories told aloud and recorded
    • a census

  3. Question 3

    What is a secondary source?

    • a photo taken in 1900
    • a letter written in 1870
    • a diary from the time
    • something made later by people studying the past

  4. Question 4

    How can you check if a source is reliable?

    • only read the title
    • pick the longest one
    • compare it with other sources
    • trust the first one you find

  5. Question 5

    A landlord and a tenant farmer describe the same rent. Why might they disagree?

    • rent did not exist
    • one of them could not count
    • they lived in different centuries
    • they had different interests and perspectives

  6. Question 6

    A source was written by a factory owner about workers’ pay. What should a historian look for?

    • a source from workers to compare
    • a shorter version
    • a newer cover
    • nothing else

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