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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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Circle the best answer.

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

LessonPrint · D2.His.4.3-5 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Same Year, Different Eyes

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

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