Grade 4 · Social studies

Compare accounts of one event

LET’S TRY ONE

A performer remembers bright stage lights; an audience member remembers quiet music. Must one account be false?

No; they noticed different aspects.

The two observations can both be true.

Your turn!
Learning steps & teaching tips

Recognize that accounts may emphasize different experiences without automatically contradicting one another.

  1. Check each observer's position, role and evidence before deciding what agrees or differs.
  2. Work through the example. Explain how its evidence supports the answer.
  3. Try a new question; use the explanation to check your thinking.

Try it together

Make one new example with a partner. Identify the evidence for your answer before checking it together.

Check each observer's position, role and evidence before deciding what agrees or differs.