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Same Year, Different Eyes is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on why people of one period differed in perspective, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.4.3-5. It prints 8 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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Same Year, Different Eyes

D2.His.4.3-5

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1.What should a historian do with two opposed views of 1846?
  • A.Pick the shorter one
  • B.Discard both
  • C.Use both, and ask what each writer stood to gain or lose
2.A boatman and a farmer disagree about the railway. Why?
  • A.One could not read
  • B.It took the boatman's cargo and gave the farmer a market
  • C.One was older
3.A porter and a wharf labourer disagree in 1850. Why?
  • A.Porters are cheerful
  • B.The same change created the porter's job and ended the labourer's
  • C.They lived apart
4.Why is it wrong to say one of two such views is simply mistaken?
  • A.Both are always right
  • B.Views cannot be judged
  • C.Each is describing a real experience of the same event
5.Two ratepayers disagree about a new school. Why?
  • A.One dislikes teachers
  • B.One's children would use it and the other's would not
  • C.One is richer
6.A first class and a third class passenger describe the same journey differently. Why?
  • A.One travelled covered and the other open to the weather
  • B.One paid nothing
  • C.One arrived sooner
7.A landowner and a traveller disagree about the line. Why?
  • A.One owned a horse
  • B.One liked walking
  • C.The track crossed the landowner's fields but shortened the traveller's journey
8.The newspaper and the petition disagree. Why?
  • A.One was longer
  • B.One was printed
  • C.One spoke for those who gained, the other for those who lost

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Answer key — Same Year, Different Eyes

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Use both, and ask what each writer stood to gain or lose
  2. 2.It took the boatman's cargo and gave the farmer a market
  3. 3.The same change created the porter's job and ended the labourer's
  4. 4.Each is describing a real experience of the same event
  5. 5.One's children would use it and the other's would not
  6. 6.One travelled covered and the other open to the weather
  7. 7.The track crossed the landowner's fields but shortened the traveller's journey
  8. 8.One spoke for those who gained, the other for those who lost

More practice for D2.His.4.3-5

Explain why people living at the same time saw things differently.

Teaching this next? Same Year, Different Eyes is the 45-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.