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 7 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.
Museum Label: Mill Shuttle
A label beside an object in the town museum.
WEAVING SHUTTLE
Made of boxwood, about 1868.
Used at Bridge Mill, which stood by the river.
The mill employed 200 people, many of them children.
Given to the museum by the Shaw family in 1954.
1. When was the shuttle made, and when did the museum get it?
2. Why does the museum put a label beside the object?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Town Council Minute
A page from the minutes of the town council meeting, 4 October.
TOWN COUNCIL, 4 OCTOBER
Present: nine councillors. Two absent.
1. The library roof needs repair. Cost: 800 pounds.
2. Seven councillors voted to mend it. Two voted against.
3. The money will come from the town fund.
4. Work will begin in November.
1. Why does the council write minutes?
2. What kind of record is this and who made it?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.K-2 · Set 7 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Dating a Town Document
Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Made about 1868 and given to the museum in 1954. 2. So visitors know what the shuttle is, where it was used and who gave it.
2.1. So there is a record of what was decided and how councillors voted. 2. Minutes made by the town council at its meeting on 4 October.
More practice for D2.His.11.K-2
Work out who made a source, when, and where, from the source itself.
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