History Historical Thinking Meta 8–10 yrs

Understanding People in Their Own Time

理解特定时代的人物

Description

Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values

Mastery Evidence
  • Historical Empathy: A Cognitive-Affective Theory (ERIC)
  • Year 4-6 historical empathy research
Assessment Prompt

If your child learns that people in the past did something that seems wrong today, can they think about why those people might have believed it was normal or right at the time?