Why Study History How
- 1. Warm up:Pick up the two worksheets on the side counter near the homework bin.Using page 9 & 10 in your textbook answer the * marked parts of the “How to Study History” worksheetSeptember 14, 2009Objective:1. Quia Questions?2. Other ways to study history!3. Why should I even study Social Studies/History?Homework: In your passport…Place the “Why Study Social Studies” worksheet behind the correct question.
- 2. Pick two reasons to study social studies and defend them in your passportHistorians:A person who studies and writes about the past.Name one!!!!
- 3. Archaeologist:A person who learns about people in the past by looking at fossils and artifacts (old things)
- 4. Anthropologist:A person who studies all parts of human society
- 5. What is the difference between an archeologists and anthropologists?Dr Dig!Technically, an anthropologist studies all aspects of humanity - physical (or biological), cultural, and archaeological. The archaeologist has a narrower field, and studies the past by recovering and analyzing artifacts and evidence of material culture. There is a great deal of overlap between the two disciplines.
- 6. Maybe a simpler answer would be good!An archaeologist digs up and studies man's past by examining the material remains of his cultures and what he did, while an anthropologist interprets these findings to find out what he thought and believed.
- 7. Maybe a simpler answer would be good!They are sometimes closely linked and can be blurred, but the main difference is that the archaeologist is concentrating on the physical evidence, while the anthropologist looks at the same evidence to discover how and why they believe whatever.
- 8. Artifact:Items MADE by humans from the pastEXAMPLES??
- 9. Fossils:Preserved remains of humans, plants, or other items from the pastExamples??
- 10. How do you find these fossils and artifacts?You dig them up!What is another way to say to dig up somethingExcavateDefine: to dig upUse it in a sentence
- 11. When I dig something up how do I know how old it is?You can date it!You mean take it out for dinner and a movie??NO NONONONONONONONONONONO !You can tell how old it is by saying what year it was made!
- 12. Now you know how we study social studies….but why should we study it??