History Lab Pre-Visit Materials
The History Lab is fun, but it’s really a blast when your students are prepared. Use these simple steps to get your students ready to search for clues, investigate
evidence, and solve the mysteries of history.
Review our vocabulary words with your students to introduce the tools of the trade used by historians when investigating history. The "tools,"
artifacts, images, ephemera, etc., provide information and clues about past events, people, and places.
Essential for all history detectives, this vocabulary list is a must do for all Lab groups. Your students will need to know these tools in order to be successful in their history mystery.
The Tools of the History Trade are sources of historical evidence. Each artifact, image, map, book or periodical, personal account, recording and ephemeral item is a piece of the puzzle that is the past. To unlock the puzzle, visit our Tools page.
Time, place, and viewpoint are three of the concepts of historical inquiry. Find the other four here and share them with your students.