Dating a Town Document is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on the maker, date and place of a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.11.K-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 25 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Dating a Town Document
D2.His.11.K-2
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Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Market Square Stall List
A list of stalls posted at the entrance to the Tuesday market.
TUESDAY MARKET
Stall 1: vegetables, grown at Hill Farm.
Stall 2: fish, brought from the coast.
Stall 3: cheese, made at Ford Dairy.
Stall 4: cloth, woven in the town.
Stall 5: oranges and lemons, brought from Spain.
1. Why does the market post a list of stalls?
2. Where would you see this list?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
School Log Book, 1912
A page from the head teacher's log book, kept at the school.
SCHOOL LOG, NOVEMBER 1912
Monday: 84 children present, 31 absent.
Tuesday: school closed. The river is over its banks.
Wednesday: 46 present. Many roads still flooded.
Thursday: coal has not arrived. Rooms very cold.
Friday: 79 present. Work resumed as usual.
1. Who kept this log and where?
2. Why did the head teacher keep a log?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.K-2 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Dating a Town Document
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. So shoppers know which stalls are there and where the goods came from. 2. At the entrance to the Tuesday market.
2.1. The head teacher kept it at the school. 2. To record how many children were present and what happened each day.
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