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Practice distinguishing sources and choosing evidence for historical questions.
#inquiry_skills#us_grade_8_social_studies
20 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.
The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
A historian studying Valley Forge finds a diary entry written by a Continental Army soldier there in 1778. What kind of source is it?
A student uses a museum article written in 2020 to explain causes of the Boston Tea Party. How should this source be classified?
A researcher studies an 1860 census page listing people in one household. What kind of source is the census page?
A textbook chapter published long after Reconstruction summarizes the Fourteenth Amendment and federal policy. How should the chapter be classified?
A political cartoon printed in an 1896 newspaper is used to study campaign symbolism that year. What kind of source is it?
A biography written in 2015 interprets Frederick Douglass’s speeches and newspaper work. What kind of source is the biography?
A researcher studying the Mexican-American War finds the signed Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo text from 1848. How should the source be classified?
A class studies Lowell mills using an encyclopedia entry written decades after the mills operated. What kind of source is the entry?
For a project about problems emigrants reported on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s, what source would best provide firsthand evidence?
For a project about goals stated at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, what source would best show organizers’ own words?
To learn what Lowell mill workers said about factory conditions in the 1840s, what source would best answer the question?
To research how one Union soldier described Civil War medical care, what source would best answer the question?
For a study of immigrant experiences at Ellis Island, what source would best give firsthand memories from arrivals?
A student analyzes a World War I bond poster to find its message. What should the student examine first?
To study how Black families described life under segregation in a Southern city in the 1950s, what source would best provide their perspective?
For research on what Dust Bowl farmers asked New Deal officials to do, what source would best show the farmers’ requests?
A wartime government poster urges citizens to buy bonds but gives no battle reports. What is one usefulness of this source?
A diary written during a gold rush by one miner describes a camp. What is one limitation when using it as evidence?
A historian compares two newspaper accounts of the same strike before making a claim. What does the comparison help the historian do?
A photograph shows a crowded tenement room but not the residents’ names, wages, or reasons for living there. What is one limitation?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Cause, Effect and Chronology
20 questions
