History Homework
We are embarking on our fantastic Victorian project and we have
been looking at the four different sources of evidence (written,
visual, oral, physical) that we can use to find out about the past.
Your team came up with so many different ideas in each category! I
photographed these and have copied them out for you to look at and
use in your homework (you do not have to use them all!).
I would like you to present your ideas in a poster, powerpoint,
leaflet, information booklet, iMovie, model etc. to explain to people
about the four different categories and to give some examples.
Basically, you can do this any way you would like to. It could be
handwritten or you could use ICT, you could colour, paint, collagethe list is endless but try to make it neat and eye-catching for an
audience as I would like to put these up in our class display and they
can form part of you final product. I am happy to give you resources
from school if you can show me that you have a clear plan.
Please hand in by Monday October 19th. 
These four sources of evidence are:
Visual: People recorded events by painting and, in more modern history,
through photographs and films
Physical: Objects that people in history have left behind
Oral: People tell their families and this is passed down through the generations
Written: People keep records of events by writing them down.
Written
Information books
Web sites
Newspapers
Letters
Diaries
Scripts
Legal documents
Census
Recipe books
Poetry
Songs/ Nursery Rhymes
Inventories
Marking, Codes, Symbols
Oral
Talking to experts/guides
Interviews
Folklore
Songs/ nursery rhymes
Audio books
Word of mouth
Eyewitnesses
Visual
Posters
Paintings
Portraits
Sketches
Maps
Photos
Adverts
Buildings
Artefacts--pottery, jewellery,
money, weapons, machinery etc.
Physical
Burial mounds
Landmarks
Artefacts-pottery, jewellery,
money, weapons, machinery etc.
Ruins
Archaeology
Monuments
Statues
Tombstones
Buildings