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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 8

History Detective

Sources, timelines and evidence

What your child practices

Primary and secondary sources, timelines and centuries, fact and opinion, claims and evidence, and judging a source by its maker, date and purpose.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: H4.5.5; H4.5.6; H1.5.1; SSS1.5.1; SSS2.5.2 · primary and secondary sources, timelines, facts, claims and evidence

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 century is…

    • 10 years
    • 1000 years
    • 100 years
    • 50 years

  2. Question 2

    How many years passed between Jamestown (1607) and the Declaration of Independence (1776)?

    • 179
    • 169
    • 159
    • 69

  3. Question 3

    Why should you list your sources (a works cited page)?

    • To make the paper longer
    • Because sources are secret
    • To give credit and let others check your information
    • To hide where you got ideas

  4. Question 4

    What does a timeline show?

    • How much things cost
    • Events in the order they happened
    • Who was right
    • Where places are

  5. Question 5

    On a timeline, which comes first: 1607, 1620 or 1776?

    • They are the same
    • 1607
    • 1776
    • 1620

  6. Question 6

    A poster from 1776 calls for men to join the army. Its purpose is to…

    • Teach maths
    • Sell tea
    • Recruit soldiers
    • Report the weather

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