ACTIVITY: CCOT – Introduction

Students are first introduced to CCOT by evaluating how farms have changed over time. They use the AP themes to help guide their analysis of continuities and changes.

You will be introduced to CCOT by evaluating how farms have changed over time. You'll use the AP themes to help guide your analysis of continuities and changes.

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As you’ve learned, one of the main historical thinking tools that historians use to analyze and produce accounts of the past is comparison. In this activity, you’ll learn how to evaluate for continuity and change over time (which we’ll refer to as CCOT throughout the course) so that you have a method for comparing (and making claims about) how the same location, idea, or historical process either stayed the same or changed during a set time in history.

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