Exploring Historical Eras
This worksheet helps fourth graders understand and identify different historical eras and their characteristics.
Includes
Standards
Topics
Exploring Historical Eras
Name:
Date:
Score:
Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Some questions may ask you to define terms or identify characteristics of historical eras.
1. A long period of time in history is called an .
2. Before written records, history is often called .
3. The study of the past is called .
4. Events that happened a very long time ago are considered part of history.
5. Which of these would you most likely find in a prehistoric era?
Cell phones
Stone tools
Cars
Computers
6. The invention of writing helped mark the end of prehistory.
True
False
7. What is one way we learn about historical eras?
8. Draw a simple timeline and place these events in the correct order: The first moon landing, the invention of the wheel, your birth year.