History Detectives

This resource contains interactive activities to develop thinking skills in History lessons. Profiles of different mystery people can be built up based on a range of evidence.

This resource helps pupils:

• to develop and improve the ‘Thinking Skills’ of questioning and enquiry,
• to be able to apply these skills when looking at a range of artefacts and sources,
• to develop an understanding of the way in which Historians and Archaeologists interpret evidence/artefacts in building a picture of the past
• to learn to discriminate between fact and opinion

The work covered includes looking at selections of evidence and building a profile of the mystery person, e.g. I think it’s a man because the watch is a man’s watch.

investigateevidencethinking skillshistorical enquiryinterpretfactopiniondetectiveprofileCeltsRomansTudorsStuartsVictorians19th CenturyWorld War II.