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History Skills 01

Learn how historians use skills like change and continuity to organise the past, spot patterns between periods and explain why some things alter while others remain familiar.

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Fascinating Fact:

Change and continuity help historians describe what has altered over time and what has stayed broadly the same.

In KS3 History, you develop skills such as using sources, understanding cause and consequence, and judging change and continuity. These tools help you build clear explanations and balanced arguments about past events.

Key Terms

Evidence: Information from sources that historians use to investigate and explain the past.
Interpretation: A particular view or explanation of past events, often created long after they happened.
Significance: How important an event, person or change is judged to be in history.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What are the main history skills in KS3?

Key KS3 history skills include using evidence, explaining causes and consequences, judging change and continuity, understanding significance and organising events in clear chronological order.

How do historians decide if something is historically significant?

Historians judge significance by asking how many people were affected, how long the impact lasted, how deeply it changed lives and whether it still matters today.

Why do different historians have different interpretations?

Different historians may use different sources, ask new questions or write at different times, so they can reach contrasting but well-supported interpretations of the same events.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

Which word means any phase in history?

Antiquity

Event

Period

Spell

e.g. the Tudor period

2 .

The facts to back up an idea are called what?

Correspondence

Eminence

Evidence

Provenance

Not all evidence is factual. An important history skill is to decide whether a piece of evidence is subjective (based on someone's opinion) or if it genuinely happened

3 .

Evidence that is one-sided or unfair is said to be .......

Ballasted

Biased

Doctored

Fixed

Evidence written by someone in the court of a ruler would be more likely to be biased in favour of the ruler. That could make someone who was really very ruthless and unpleasant appear to be a kind and generous person

4 .

What means 'looking at something from another person's viewpoint'?

Empathy

Empiricism

Entropy

Telepathy

A person who can look at something from the viewpoint of other people is less likely to jump to the wrong conclusion

5 .

What is chronology?

A collection of historical writings

Digging up ancient objects

Events before 1066

The correct order of events over time

Historical events are usually put into chronological order

6 .

Historians use which phrase for the link between what makes events happen and their results?

Cause and aftermath

Cause and consequence

Lead up and outcome

Trigger and truth

Also called cause and effect

7 .

What is the best definition of a historical source?

Documents that are extremely old

Solidified ketchup found among Viking remains

Something providing useful evidence about the past

Things that have been written down

Sources can be books, pictures, skeletons, pieces of pottery etc

8 .

The term 'primary source' means what?

From the time being studied

The least important source

Written by a young child

Written sources only

Even primary sources are not always reliable

9 .

Another word for a primary source is ....... what?

Contemplative

Contemporary

Contiguous

Contrary

Contemporary is a general word that is used to describe more than one thing happening at the same time

10 .

Using historical outcomes to draw conclusions about an event is…?

Backsight

Hindsight

Longsight

Oversight

With hindsight, you can see that if different decisions had been made, an outcome could have been very different

Author: Jan Crompton (KS3 Geography & History Teacher, Professional Quiz Writer)

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