Why We Study History- Period Seven (2025) by Telles, Erin

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It is important to stay informed on current events as they unfold because...

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One example of multiple perspectives or interpretations is...

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Critical thinking skills can be defined as...

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Being able to defend your claims/opinions with evidence is important because...

Noticing trends and patterns that appear to repeat themselves throughout history can help us...

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Applying knowledge from the past to solve problems in the present can help us...

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Developing an appreciation for other people and cultures can benefit a person by...

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One example of a person/group of people throughout history who has/have approached a challenge using creativity/creative methods is...

A creative mind can be helpful when problem solving because...

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etelles5 — 2025-08-19 22:29:36 UTC

One example of a historical discovery that could be described as "exciting" is...

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Erin Telles

etelles5 — 2025-08-20 21:19:08 UTC

This saying means that by learning history, we can get a better idea of what life looked like hundreds of years ago.

Ace Narvasa

2025-08-20 21:20:10 UTC

This saying means that history is a way to look back into the past, and find out how we lived life a long time ago.

Murtaza Fahim

2025-08-20 21:22:46 UTC

This saying means that history is something behind the curtains of your window. Beyond it are discoveries in the past and times you have never seen. All you have to do is look through that window, and you will find extraordinary sights.

One danger of being uninformed is that something bad could be happening near where you live and if you don't know what's happening it could be dangerous.

2025-08-20 21:22:50 UTC

Makaila Wagner

2025-08-20 21:23:32 UTC

If I could put this saying into my own words, I would say that this saying means that by learning history you are learning about the past and that by learning about history it is taking you back to the past

Ace Narvasa

2025-08-20 21:24:01 UTC

Applying knowledge from the past to solve problems in the present can help us because we can use the information about how we solved problems in the past and build on the idea to help solve problems nowadays.

Ethan

2025-08-20 21:24:23 UTC

This saying makes me think about the old times hundreds of years ago.

Murtaza Fahim

2025-08-20 21:24:29 UTC

What this saying means is that if you learn and understand the past's history you can change the world and solve problems.

Lucas Xu

2025-08-20 21:24:37 UTC

Developing an interest in other people and cultures can help to teach people in the present how other people did than the people in the present. It shows us that how other people did it differently and it teaches about there cultures and how we can learn from it.

2025-08-20 21:24:54 UTC

the quote ¨history is a window into the past¨ means its a way to look back in the past 100,1000,or even millions or billions years ago to show what life was back in the past and makes us understand what the past was like

2025-08-20 21:24:59 UTC

I would say a teacher is a window to the past. This saying makes me think about all my teachers who me history.

2025-08-20 21:25:09 UTC

A creative mind can be helpful for problem solving because it's important to consider many different ideas.

Past

2025-08-20 21:25:15 UTC

This saying makes me think about learning the gold rush in 4th grade and a little history of china

2025-08-20 21:25:15 UTC

I like this saying because I think it tells us that we need to learn history because it tells us not to repeat bad things that happened before.

Dean Frowiss

2025-08-20 21:25:25 UTC

Understanding the past is key to understanding the present because we can learn that fighting is not always the best answer. We would also learn that there are people in the past that did this way instead of going to war to risk lives.

Ace Narvasa

2025-08-20 21:25:31 UTC

One example of multiple perspectives or interpretations is the different styles of dancing a long time ago, compared to right now.

jiyul kang

2025-08-20 21:25:38 UTC

If i could put this saying into my own words I would say history is a door way into the history.

Daniel Martinez

2025-08-20 21:26:05 UTC

If I could put this saying into my own words , I would say that to see the past we need to learn the past.

2025-08-20 21:26:17 UTC

Developing an interest in other people and cultures can help teach people to accept other cultures and have a better understanding of their ways.

2025-08-20 21:26:25 UTC

This saying means that there's a a way/window to look and see what has happened in our history.

Makaila Wagner

2025-08-20 21:26:48 UTC

This saying makes me think about by learning/understanding the past, it can help you understand thinks in the present, that you wouldn't understand if you didn't learn about history. EXAMPLE: If we didn't learn about the past inventing technology, no one would know about it.

Ishita Deepu

2025-08-20 21:27:37 UTC

I would say this means that if we learn history we would see the differences of the present and past easily and we can improve by not doing the same stuff as the past.

2025-08-20 21:28:04 UTC

this saying means if you understand the past you will not make the same mistakes in the present like for example if someone went to war in the past the present people will understand that was a bad idea or another way is a good thing is in the past helps us know what to do to do the same

jiyul kang

2025-08-20 21:28:04 UTC

this saying means understanding is the history is code to understanding the present.

present and future

2025-08-20 21:28:09 UTC

If I could put this saying into my own words, I would say yes because decades ago there were wars and there will probably be more wars in the future.

2025-08-20 21:28:23 UTC

This saying means you have to understand the past to understand the current world right now. If I could put this into my own words I would say Understand the past to understand the future. This saying makes me think about learning history.

2025-08-20 21:28:34 UTC

This saying makes me think about how, in the olden days, we used to make butter by hand, and now we have machines.

2025-08-20 21:28:39 UTC

One danger of rejecting multiple perspectives is turning the best ideas because there not yours.

Ethan

2025-08-20 21:28:40 UTC

One benefit of understanding multiple perspectives is being respected and being a master at that activity.

Dean Frowiss

2025-08-20 21:28:58 UTC

This can help us avoid danger in lots of cases and find a way to stop the war or something like that could risk lives.

Ishita Deepu

2025-08-20 21:29:09 UTC

This saying means that the present or future always improves the past.

Jaxon Vasquez

2025-08-20 21:29:28 UTC

Understanding the past is a key to understanding the present means like the key is able to open a door and that door leads to the past.

Noticing trends and patterns that appear to repeat themselves throughout history can help us either stop the pattern if it is a bad one or help it if it's a good one.

2025-08-20 21:29:41 UTC

2025-08-20 21:29:45 UTC

One example of a historical discovery that could be described as "exciting" is that because people can have fun discovering the past events like ancient Egypt it helps of learn in present things is that if one of those events happens again well know.

jiyul Kang

2025-08-20 21:29:52 UTC

this saying means understanding the history is code to understanding the present.

2025-08-20 21:30:11 UTC

I like this because in history, we have multiple perspectives, so we get to see the mistakes made and the way people back then acted.

2025-08-20 21:30:16 UTC

One danger of being uninformed is making the same mistake.

Ariana Guerrero

2025-08-20 21:30:28 UTC

This saying means that history is a way to look back on what happened back in the past .

2025-08-20 21:30:31 UTC

This saying means that understanding what has happened in the past could help us understand what not to repeat again

2025-08-20 21:30:45 UTC

One danger to the limit of perspectives to understand different people to not kill each other off

Past

2025-08-20 21:30:50 UTC

This saying reminds me of the gold rush and learning a little bit of ancient china

Makaila Wagner

2025-08-20 21:31:05 UTC

Developing an interest in other people and cultures can help to teach people about how everyone is different and how things such as cultures and people have changed over times. People wouldn't know about it if we didn't learn about history. EXAMPLE: The houses have definitely changed.

2025-08-20 21:31:10 UTC

if your uninformed something bad could happen near you like a flood,bomb,war,fight,hurricane,etc and you would not know whats happening until its too late which would be risking your own life

Dean Frowiss

2025-08-20 21:31:27 UTC

This can help us feel what others are feeling instead of being self absorbed and only think about yourself. Please think about what you say and to not be self absorbed.

Ethan

2025-08-20 21:31:30 UTC

This saying makes me think about how everything today was just new stuff a long time ago and now we understand the items.

2025-08-20 21:31:53 UTC

One example of multiple perspectives is that or interpretations is people back in the day have things they think of.

2025-08-20 21:31:55 UTC

I think this is important because we would have so many more problems now than we do if we didn't have stories from the past.

2025-08-20 21:31:56 UTC

One reason of "Why we study History padlet" is History helps us make the right choices. History also can teach us why and why not to do something like for example start a war or not break the law. History can help us with finding out how this country does its stuff or how good and bad this country or person is. Lots of people think that History is barely anything but History is something that can help our life and career better!

2025-08-20 21:31:58 UTC

One danger of rejecting multiple perspectives is not knowing the full story.

Present and future

2025-08-20 21:32:14 UTC

This saying makes me think that in the future there will be wars like today

jiyul kang

2025-08-20 21:32:32 UTC

Critical thinking skills can be defined as cool history power our critical thinking skills

Ishita Deepu

2025-08-20 21:32:53 UTC

This saying means that every single future generation will think more outside the box because it is way more modern.

2025-08-20 21:33:30 UTC

it lets us know what happened from different sides in history to know what actually happened

One way that a discovery could be considered a reward is that you helped people understand the past better which can help the future.

2025-08-20 21:33:57 UTC

2025-08-20 21:34:10 UTC

This means that we can look back and see are mistakes

2025-08-21 00:04:47 UTC

Developing an interest in other cultures can help teach people that we are all different.

Future and present

2025-08-21 01:45:10 UTC

Applying knowledge from the past can solve problems in the future that can help us because wars might come and we need to build tanks or planes. From the past there was not very good technology and in the present we might earn the mistakes and make better technology.

2025-08-21 03:03:47 UTC

its helps people acknowledge historical events in many different ways

2025-08-21 03:06:59 UTC

it shows history encourages people to write paragraphs,make evidence,and more than just study into the past

2025-08-21 03:15:24 UTC

noticing trends and patterns that appear and repeat themselves throughout history can help us collect evidence to stop a bad trend or patterns or if its a good pattern or trend can help us in the future to make more smarter choices

2025-08-21 03:18:04 UTC

applying knowledge from the past to solve problems in the present can help us not repeat mistakes like a war we know not to do that or if its a good thing it shows us a trend

2025-08-21 03:21:39 UTC

developing a interest in other peoples cultures can benefit a person by showing you appreciate the past and whats going on in there culture

2025-08-21 03:25:57 UTC

a creative mind can be helpful when problem solving because it teaches to challenge yourself and think outside the box in diffecult things or stories without a question

2025-08-21 03:27:55 UTC

one example of a historical discovery that could be described as ¨exciting" is the gold rush era/time when you could find gold and stroke it rich

Murtaza Fahim

2025-08-22 12:07:46 UTC

The way it keeps us informed on current events is why things in the past have affected the future, and how it happened. It gives information about wars, discoveries, and inventions.

Murtaza Fahim

2025-08-22 12:40:47 UTC

One benefit of understanding multiple perspectives is that it helps us get to know each other better. It also shows why people are what they are and seem to be.

2025-08-22 12:43:54 UTC

Strong critical thinking skills can benefit a person by enabling them to study more effectively and think more deeply and critically.

Murtaza Fahim

2025-08-22 12:48:06 UTC

Noticing trends and patterns that appear to repeat themselves throughout history can help us understand the world and more events in the future.

Murtaza Fahim

murtazaf52987 — 2025-08-22 12:53:57 UTC

You can analyze the past and make sure you don't make the same mistakes that people made in the past.

Murtaza Fahim

murtazaf52987 — 2025-08-22 13:01:39 UTC

The way it gives an understanding of people's cultures and others is by seeing through their perspective

Murtaza Fahim

murtazaf52987 — 2025-08-22 13:06:42 UTC

A creative mind will be helpful in problem-solving because a person with a creative mind can come up with new ways to find new solutions when times are tough.

Murtaza Fahim

murtazaf52987 — 2025-08-22 13:09:56 UTC

It gives us the joy of learning something new and discovering countless other aspects of the world, like dinosaurs and fossils, the waters and rainbows, and the evolution of the extraordinary human minds.

Jaxon Vasquez

2025-08-22 20:15:37 UTC

What this sentence means is that history is a window and if you should look through that window you could see what history was like.

Lauren reader

laurenr72137 — 2025-08-22 20:15:39 UTC

Noticing trends and patterns that appear to repeat themselves throughout history can help us prevent the same problems in the future. Reducing risks and understanding why we need to learn this.

Camilla Kretchmar NEW

2025-08-22 20:15:58 UTC

One danger of being uninformed is that something bad could be happening near where you live, and if you don't know what's happening it could be dangerous.

Ariana Guerrero

2025-08-22 20:16:03 UTC

This saying means you have to understand things in the back in the past then in the world right now.

jiyul kang

2025-08-22 20:17:29 UTC

It is important for students to develop critical thinking skills because cool history power our critical thinking skills.

Avery Hewison

2025-08-22 20:17:40 UTC

This saying means if we go back centuries ago and see what life looked like times ago.

HENRY NEW

2025-08-22 20:17:55 UTC

This means that we can look back and see are mistakes

Ishita Deepu

2025-08-22 20:18:37 UTC

I would say that using our knowledge from the past will help us understand that that we shouldn't do the same thing from the past instead we will improve out of that information.

Emraan Mehdi

2025-08-22 20:19:18 UTC

It's important to stay informed on the current events as they unfold because you will know what's happening. One example of a current event is that there is a fire near west field.

Daniel Martinez

2025-08-22 20:19:23 UTC

If I could put this in my own words I would say that it does make us think outside the box as well as its make us think creatively as well.

Avery Hewison

2025-08-22 20:20:31 UTC

If I could put this saying in my own words I would say if you went back in time you would understand the presents better in our world.

2025-08-22 20:20:35 UTC

Applying knowledge from the past to solve problems in the present can help us because knowing what happened from the past can help us so we don't repeat what had already happened.

Ariana Guerrero

2025-08-22 20:20:50 UTC

One Danger is being uninformed is making a huge and bad mistake from anything you did in the past.

Camilla Kretchmar NEW

2025-08-22 20:21:35 UTC

Noticing trends and patterns that appear to repeat themselves throughout history can help us either stop the pattern if it's bad or help the pattern if it's good.

Ishita Deepu

2025-08-22 20:21:47 UTC

History lets us think out of the box because knowing history lets us know to be creative with thoughts because of the knowledge it gives us.

Jaxon Vasquez

2025-08-22 20:21:48 UTC

It is very important to be informed on current events as they unfold because if we don't we will be uninformed to the past.

jiyul kang

2025-08-22 20:21:53 UTC

This saying means understanding the history is code to understanding the present.

henry

2025-08-22 20:22:05 UTC

History is thought changing giving us ideas differently outside of the box

2025-08-22 20:22:13 UTC

It is important for students to develop critical thinking skills because they are very important skills for many jobs and opportunities.

Makaila Wagner

2025-08-22 20:22:45 UTC

This saying makes me think about by learning/understanding the past, it can help you understand things in the present, that you wouldn't understand if you didn't learn about history. EXAMPLE: If we didn't learn about the past inventing technology, no one would know about it.

Lauren reader

laurenr72137 — 2025-08-22 20:24:28 UTC

One benefit of understanding multiple perspectives is hearing what others have to say and putting their ideas in your head. Looking at the perspectives and giving you the mindset to understand what their saying.

Camilla Kretchmar NEW

2025-08-22 20:26:43 UTC

One way that a discovery could be considered a reward is that you helped people understand the past better which can help the future.

Avery Hewison

2025-08-22 20:26:52 UTC

It is important to stay informed on current events as they unfold because you want to know what is going on and if there is any new discovery's.

Daniel Martinez

2025-08-22 20:28:48 UTC

It does help us understand multiple perspectives and interpretations and the understanding multiple perspectives helps us a lot when we understand it.

Lauren reader

laurenr72137 — 2025-08-22 20:34:00 UTC

This saying makes me think about when we learned about american history in 5th grade we made our own characters and thought like it was the past, opening a window we never thought we needed.

henry tavakoli

2025-08-22 20:34:29 UTC

Strong critical thinking skills can benefit by helping giving common sense to help

Makaila Wagner

2025-08-24 04:47:06 UTC

If I could put this saying into my own words, I would say that this saying means that by learning history you are learning about the past, and that by learning about history is taking you back into the past.

Henry New Two

2025-08-24 22:50:54 UTC

This means that we can look back to see are mistakes.

henry new

2025-08-24 22:59:04 UTC

Strong critical thinking skills can benefit by help giving common sense to help people.

henry new

2025-08-25 00:00:16 UTC

History is forever changing having us think outside of the box.

Past

2025-08-27 03:31:05 UTC

This saying reminds me of the gold rush and learning a little bit of ancient China.

Present and future

2025-08-27 03:32:45 UTC

This saying makes me think that in the future there will be wars like today.

2025-08-27 03:37:34 UTC

It keeps us informed on current events because we need to know what happens right now so we can do the next step.

billie

2025-09-21 19:02:46 UTC

''History is a window into the past. I think this quot to me is like a book, you open it and you see pictures, of the past.

billie

2025-09-21 19:08:13 UTC

'' it gives us an understanding of other people and cultures. If we didnt know anyones culture, how would we all get respected or, traveling and not knowing about other people who live far away.

billie

2025-09-21 19:11:41 UTC

If we didnt have history to look back on, people back then would not be growing their skills on whats happend then, and whats happened now

billie

2025-09-21 19:14:20 UTC

history is a gift, if we didnt have it, we would not be strong enoughfor whats happened in the past