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Grade 6 - U1 L1
Investigating the Past Through Inquiry
| geographer | a person who studies natural and human features of the earth |
| historian | a person who studies events of the past |
| archaeologist | a person who examines artifacts |
| secondary source | something about the past, made by a person who was NOT there |
| primary source | something from the past, made by a person who WAS there |
| inquiry | the process of looking for answers to questions |
| compelling question | a question that doesn’t have a simple answer |
| supporting question | an opinion that a historian makes, supported with evidence |
| argument | a question that has a concrete answer |
| bias | a tendency to favor one side over an another |
| public policy | laws about what to do for social problems |
| ritual | a set of steps people follow, often in a ceremony |
| artifact | an object made by people in the past |
| prehistoric | coming from the time before events were recorded in writing |