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What Survives About the Town is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on identifying kinds of historical source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.9.K-2. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

What Survives About the Town

D2.His.9.K-2

NameDate

Sort each one into source or not.

1.Sort each one: A source about the past or Not a source?

Sort: Alice's letter from 1868, The 1871 census page, A guess about who lived at number 5, A drawing of an imaginary town

A source about the pastNot a source
2.Sort each one: A source about the past or Not a source?

Sort: A rumour with nothing behind it, The weaving shuttle itself, The school log book, What we wish had happened

A source about the pastNot a source
3.Sort each one: A source about the past or Not a source?

Sort: The council minutes, The newspaper flood report, A story somebody invented about the mill, A film made up about a flood

A source about the pastNot a source

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Answer key — What Survives About the Town

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A drawing of an imaginary town — Not a source 2. A guess about who lived at number 5 — Not a source 3. Alice's letter from 1868 — A source about the past 4. The 1871 census page — A source about the past
  2. 2.1. A rumour with nothing behind it — Not a source 2. The school log book — A source about the past 3. The weaving shuttle itself — A source about the past 4. What we wish had happened — Not a source
  3. 3.1. A film made up about a flood — Not a source 2. A story somebody invented about the mill — Not a source 3. The council minutes — A source about the past 4. The newspaper flood report — A source about the past

More practice for D2.His.9.K-2

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.9.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.