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 8 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. Why does the museum put a label beside the object?
2. When was the shuttle made, and when did the museum get it?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Newspaper Report: The Flood
A report in the town newspaper, printed two days after the flood of 1912.
THE RIVER OVER ITS BANKS
On Tuesday the river rose after three days of rain.
Water reached the doors of the houses on Mill Row.
The bridge was closed and the mill stopped for a day.
Neighbours carried furniture upstairs.
The council has promised to raise the river wall.
1. When was this report printed?
2. Why did the newspaper print this report?
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Answer key — Dating a Town Document
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. So visitors know what the shuttle is, where it was used and who gave it. 2. Made about 1868 and given to the museum in 1954.
2.1. Two days after the flood, in the town newspaper. 2. To tell the town what the flood had done and what the council promised.
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