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Grade 3 Social Studies · World 7: Colonial America · Level 55
Many Points of View
Use primary and secondary sources, and tell fact from opinion.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 55
- How do we know about colonial life? From sources! A primary source was made by someone who was there, at the time: a diary, a letter, a map, a newspaper, or an artifact.
- A secondary source was made later, by someone who wasn't there, like your textbook, an encyclopedia, or a website written today.
- Sources hold facts and opinions. A fact can be proven true. An opinion tells what someone thinks or feels.
- Hannah's first sentence is a fact: we can check the date. The second is an opinion: other people might disagree.
- Different people saw colonial life in different ways. A planter, an enslaved worker, a servant, and a Cherokee hunter would each tell a very different story. Historians listen to them all.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS3H3.c — Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of various people: large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, children, indentured servants, slaves, and American Indians.
- IPS.4 — Information Processing Skill 4: distinguish between fact and opinion (mastered in Grade 3)
- IPS.6 — Information Processing Skill 6: identify and use primary and secondary sources (developing in Grade 3)