Welcome to Social Studies Happy Monday!

Mrs. Gallagher

Team Hilton

Welcome to Social Studies today!Please take out your project, open to your warm up section, write todays date and complete the following activity individually and silently.

List at least 10 things you have already done today. Start as soon as you woke up. They can be anything you have already done.Example 1: you changed out of your pajamas.Example 2: you went to science class

For each of the 10 activities you listed above, list any proof (or evidence) that the event took place.

Example 1: proof that you changed out of pj’s is that they are still crumpled on the bathroom floor, and your mom is a witness that you wore different clothes to school than you wore to bed.

Example 2: students, Mrs. Conrad & Mrs. Manha are witnesses, your completed classwork, filled out agenda book, used up pencil eraser…

• Did you create any records of your activities (a diary, notes to yourself, a letter to a friend or relative, an e-mail message, a telephone message)?

• Would traces of your activities appear in records someone else created (a friend's diary, notes, or calendar entry; a letter or e-mail from a friend or relative)?

• Would traces of your activities appear in school records? in business records (did you write a check or use a charge card)? in the school or local newspaper? in government records (did you get your driver's license or go to traffic court)?

• Would anyone be able to offer testimony (or oral history) about your activities (who and why)?

Evaluate the Evidence:

1. What pieces of written evidence did you create?

2. What unwritten evidence (artifacts) did you create?

3. What kind of sources are more useful in determining what happened? Why?

Inference

Inference is just a big word that means  conclusion or judgement. If you infer that something has happened, you do not see, hear, feel, smell, or taste the actual event. But from what you know, it makes sense to think that it has happened.

You make inferences everyday. Most of the time you do so without thinking about it.

Suppose you are sitting in your car stopped at a red signal light. You hear screeching tires, then a loud crash and breaking glass. You see nothing, but you infer that there has been a car accident. We all know the sounds of screeching tires and a crash. We know that these sounds almost always mean a car accident. But there could be some other reason, and therefore another explanation, for the sounds. Perhaps it was not an accident involving two moving vehicles. Maybe an angry driver rammed a parked car.

Making inferences means choosing the most likely explanation from the facts at hand

Coin Activity:Imagine you are an archaeologist

and you have just come across an ancient coin in the ruins of a city. What can you INFER about the people who created it? List at least 5 inferences and justify your conclusions.

Inference: A CONCLUSION based upon fact and OBSERVATION