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What Are These Children Doing?

K-5
One class period
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Learning Objectives

  • Make inferences based on text evidence
  • Examine primary source material
  • Use evidence to answer the question, “What are these children doing?”
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Overview

Historians make inferences. In this introduction to inquire lesson, students learn some of the skills and strategies historians use to learn about the past. They will explore primary source images to help answer the mystery question: "What are these children doing?"

iCivics en español! Student and class materials for this mystery are available in Spanish.

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Spanish
ELA/Literacy
History Connection
Inquiry-based
Primary Source
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