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 6 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
NameDate
Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Census Page, Mill Row
A page from the town census of 1871, kept in the record office.
MILL ROW, 1871
Number 3: Shaw, John, 34, weaver.
Number 3: Shaw, Alice, 31, weaver.
Number 3: Shaw, Emma, 11, piecer at the mill.
Number 4: Doyle, Mary, 58, washerwoman.
Number 5: empty.
1. Why did the town count people this way?
2. When was this census taken and where is it kept?
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 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Dating a Town Document
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. To record who lived in each house on Mill Row and what work they did. 2. In 1871, and it is kept in the record office.
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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