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Lesson 6 Abstract

This lesson teaches students that historians use four tools to organize information: significance, social institutions, temporal frames (time), and spatial scales (space). It explains that historians must determine what makes events significant to their study, though ideas of significance can vary. Students will learn to construct their own rules for determining significance and create a thinking tool to apply this framework. The lesson emphasizes that establishing significance is important for both creating and understanding historical accounts.

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Lesson 6 Abstract

This lesson teaches students that historians use four tools to organize information: significance, social institutions, temporal frames (time), and spatial scales (space). It explains that historians must determine what makes events significant to their study, though ideas of significance can vary. Students will learn to construct their own rules for determining significance and create a thinking tool to apply this framework. The lesson emphasizes that establishing significance is important for both creating and understanding historical accounts.

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Unit 1- Lesson 6: Tools to Organize and Analyze the Past -- Establishing

Significance
.
Big Ideas of the Lesson

Historians investigate the past by (1) framing problems to study, (2) selecting and
analyzing available evidence, (3) organizing their information, and (4) creating the account.

Four tools that historians use to organize information include significance, social
institutions, temporal frames (time), and spatial scales (space).

Ideas about significance can vary among historians.

We can determine whether an event is significant by constructing and applying


rules or theories about what makes an event important.

Organizing an account by significance is important for both the historian and


reader.

Lesson Abstract:
In this lesson, students learn that historians use four distinct tools to organize and analyze
information: significance, social institutions, temporal frames (time), and spatial scales (space).
After revisiting the issues of analyzing sources, they explore what significance means and
construct a thinking tool to assist in organizing information based on its significance to the historical
problem.1 Students learn that historians have ideas of what makes things significant to their study,
and that the ideas of significance can vary from one historian to another. They examine how
significance is very important for both the creation of a historical account and in the reading of
others historical accounts. Students then create a thinking tool for determining significance to use
throughout the course.
Content Expectations: 7 H1.2.1; H1.2.4; H1.4.3
Common Core State Standards: RH.6-8.2, 4, and 10; WHST.6-8.7, 9, and 10
Key Concepts
event
evidence
history
representation/account

1 A note about the students theories of significance and the need for visual tools: In school, students learn that
significance is determined by authorities, such as the textbook or teacher. In their personal lives, students often use
interest to determine significance. In many ways, these are the habits of mind that students have developed over the
years. However, we are going to want to develop and use a more sophisticated theory of significance and these lessons
are designed to do so.

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