1. Welcome to Year 7 History

2. What do we talk about in Year 7 History?

3. 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)

4. Who am I?
Who are you?

5. 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

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

7. let’s get started...

8. 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.

9. What is history?
What do historians do?

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

12. Let’s think more about how we show time

13. What is archaeology?
What do archaeologists do?

14. 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.

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

16. 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).

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

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

19. 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