4802812597 | Historical argumentation | Historical thinking involves the ability to create an argument and support it using relevant historical evidence. | 0 | |
4802834980 | Analyzing evidence | Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, select and evaluate relevant evidence about the past from diverse sources (including written documents, works of art, archaeological artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary sources) and draw conclusions about their relevance to different historical issues. | 1 | |
4802923916 | Historical causation | Historical thinking involves the ability to identify, analyze and evaluate relationships among historical causes and effects.distinguishing between between those that are long term and proximate. Historical thinking also involves the ability to distinguish between causation and correlation and an awareness of contingency the way that historical events results from a complex variety of factors that come together in unpredictable ways and often have unaticipatated consequences. | 2 | |
4803049767 | Patterns of continutty and change over time | Historical thinking involves the ability to recognize, analyze and evaluate the dynamics of historical continutty and change over a period of time of varying length as well as the ability to relate these patterns to larger historical processes or theme. | 3 | |
4803115792 | Periodization | Historical thinking involves the ability and evaluate different ways that historians divide history into discrete and definable periods. Historians construct and debate different sometimes competing motels of Periodization the choice of specific turning points or starting and eating dates might accord a higher value to one narrative region or group than another. | 4 | |
4803170282 | Compare and contrast | Historical thinking involves the ability to identify compare and evaluate multiple perspectives on a given historical event in order to draw conclusion about that event..it also involves the ability to describe compare and evaluate multiple historical developments within one society one or more developments across or between different societies and various chronological and geographical contexts. | 5 | |
4803202551 | Interpretation | Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze and evaluate the different ways historians interpret the past. This includes understanding the various types questions historians ask, as well as considering how the particular circumstances and contexts in which individual historians work and write and shape their interpretations of past events and historical evidence. | 6 | |
4803240654 | Contextualization | Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical events and processes to specific circumstances of time and place as well as broader regional, national or global processes. | 7 | |
4803253878 | Synthesis | Historical thinking involves the ability to develop understanding of the past by making meaningful and persuasive historical and/or cross-disciplinary connections between a given historical issue and other historical contexts, periods,themes or disciplines. | 8 |
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