Tools of a Historian
Name: ________________________ Date: ________________________

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Develop an understanding of how to use and create a timeline.
Student is unable to demonst rate ability to use or create/draw a timeline.
Student is able to identify and/or use a timeline but is unable to create/draw one.
Student is able to identify and/or use a timeline and is also able to create/draw one using only pictures.
Student is able to identify and/or use a timeline and is also able to create/draw one using both pictures and words.
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Develop an awareness of a primary source.
Student is unable to identify or describe a primary source.
Student is unable to describe a primary source when asked but is able to identify a primary source when provided by the teacher.
Student is able to identify a primary source and is also able to independently describe at least one primary source.
Student is able to identify and describe 2 or more primary sources.
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Use words and phrases related to chronology/time to explain how things change and to sequentially order events occurring at school.
Student is unable to use words/phrases related to time or to explain how things change or order events sequentially.
Student is able to use words and phrases related to time but cannot explain how things change and cannot order events sequentially.
Student is able to use words and phrases related to time and can explain how things change but cannot order events sequentially.
Student can use words and phrases related to time, can explain how things change and can order events sequentially.
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Explain that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year.
Student is unable to explain that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year.
Student is able to explain that calendars represent days of the week but not months of the year.
Student is able to explain that calendars represent days of the week (and can identify them) but not the months of the year.
Student is able to explain that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year - and is able to identify all days/months.
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