Welcome to Year 7 History

What do we talk about in Year 7 History?

Year 7 History Skills & Methods in History Our ancient past - Australian Aborigines (T1) Ancient China (T1) Ancient Greece (T4) Ancient Egypt (T2) Archaeology Ancient Rome (T3) Ancient India (T1-2)

Who am I? Who are you?

How do you present your history notes - in an A4 book Include colour, headings, diagrams, sketches, margin comments, speech bubbles, stick in images (printed & hand drawn), key words that stick out Take notes in short bullet points Leave white space between topics Personalise your history writing Make your history notes scream of you

The rules: show respect for each other’s points of view show consideration for the environment you work in lesson time is focused

let’s get started...

Some key questions to answer: What is history? What do historians do? How have humans divided the past? - time periods on timelines What is archaeology? What do archaeologists do? What are sources? Give some examples of primary and secondary sources. What is evidence? How do we know that the information we have found is correct? (Is the source reliable? What perspective does the source reveal? Is there a right in history? History can be told from many perspectives.

What is history? What do historians do?

How have humans divided the past? - time periods on timelines

Let’s think more about how we show time

What is archaeology? What do archaeologists do?

What are sources? Historian’s clues about the past are called sources. Historians usually use a variety of sources to gain information about the topic they are investigating.

Can you give me some examples of primary and secondary sources?

Why is evidence important? Historians usually compare sources to see if they are telling us the same thing about an event or issue. When they analyse a source they gather evidence which supports what the source tells us about the event (this is supporting evidence). Sometimes historians study a source and find evidence which contradicts what they other sources told us (this is contradictory evidence).

Activity: Can you match the these keywords with their correct definitions?

history   artefact source archaeologist evidence perspective chronological order AD BC BCE CE primary source secondary source

  common era anno Domini (latin for in the year of our Lord) the order in which events happened before the common era an object made or altered by people eg. tools a source created after the period the historian is investigating eg. a text book person’s point of view / outlook before Christ a source created during the period the historian is investigating eg. a hammer from medieval England investigation of the past someone who investigates the past by digging up objects written and non-written items that give information about the past information from a source that gives more detail / information