Welcome to Provenance!
Ready to think like a historian?
But first…
How have you been taught history?
Record or type — no wrong answer.
Tap to record your thoughts
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what you think.
We might have different thoughts on history…
… but most of us learned it as lists of people, dates, and events— sometimes as a story!
But people, dates, and events are like fragments.
To understand the past, we need to piece those fragments back into the bigger picture.
That’s how a historian thinks.
To understand the past, they first reconstruct the bigger picture — or the world around people and events.
That world is what historians call…
Context
Contextualising is…
Reconstructing a time and placein the past…
… then using it to understand people and events.
So how do we do it?
By asking the right questions.
This is where Provenance comes in.
We use the P.A.S.T. framework to help you think about contextin different lenses…
… then we ask questions to reconstruct the world around us.
Check out the lenses of the P.A.S.T.!
Tap each lens to reveal what it means.
In this experience you will…
Explore
Find stops like you are on a tour
Contextualise
Apply the P.A.S.T. and ask for more context
Reflect
Share your thoughts!