Exploring Social

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 What are we going to
learn in Social Studies?
Topics • Unit 1: Time, Continuity and Change
• Unit 2: Identity, Culture and Heritage
• Unit 3: People, Places and Environment
• Unit 4: Travel and Tourism
• Unit 5: Governance and Citizenship
• Unit 6: International Relations and
globalization 3
 UNIT 1
Time, Continuity
and Change
Nature of History and
Archaeology
What is unique
about this
BOOK?

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What is
unique about
this Book? ▫ It contains information about the past,
present and the future

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What is
history?
▫ History is the study of the past
events in the lives of human beings.

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What is
history?

▫ It is the story of people on the Earth.

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Why
study ▫ By understanding our past and
history? where we came from,
▫ it will help us to develop an
understanding of where we are now
▫ and what might happen in the
future.

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What is
Prehistory? ▫ the time span before the invention of
writing or the time
▫ before the recorded history is known
as Prehistory

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Nature of
history and ▫ Archaeology is the study of the past
archaeology through material remains.

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Nature of history and
archaeology
▫ It is about
finding how
people lived,
what they looked
like,
▫ what tools they
used and what
their cultures
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Nature of
history and
archaeology

▫ Archaeologists study every scrap of

evidence they can find for clues as to
how people lived in the past.
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Nature of
history and
archaeology

▫ things like bits of broken pottery or

the foundations of a house
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Nature of
history and
archaeology

▫ Any material that provides

information about the past
▫ is called a ‘Source’ 16
Types of Sources

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Types of Sources

The Tollund Man (died c. 405–380

BC) is a naturally mummified corpse
of a man who lived during the 5th
century BC, during the period
characterised in Scandinavia as the
Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found
in 1950, preserved as a bog body,
near Silkeborg on the Jutland
peninsula in Denmark.
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Task 1
Answer these ▫ What is history?
questions in your
exercise book ▫ What is prehistory?
▫ What is archeology?
▫ What is nature of history and
archaeology?

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 ▫ What is nature of history and
Task 1 archaeology?
Answer these
questions in your
exercise book ▫ History and archaeology involves
finding about how people lived, what
they looked like, what tools they
used and what their cultures were
like in the past using whatever
source of evidence is available.
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A picture is worth a thousand
words

A complex idea can be conveyed

with just a single still image,
namely making it possible to
absorb large amounts of data
quickly.

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