This activity will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources.
Students practice working as a class in pairs and as individuals to determine the type of source.
Primary and secondary sources activity. For this activity students will be introduced to primary and secondary sources. Students will create a T-chart that separates primary and secondary sources by three defining aspects. The three aspects for this activity are the date of creation strengths of using that type of source and the drawbacksnegatives of using that type of source.
This activity will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the. Primary sources may have been preserved deliberately or by chance. Historians use primary sources to find the evidence to answer their questions about the past.
Secondary sources are the products of the study of history they are always based on other sources. You might want to use this simple example to explain the difference between primary and secondary sources. Suppose there had been a car accident.
Doc 891 KB. Pupils are challenged to seperate the sources and stick them under PRIMARY and SECONDARY source headings. Primary and Secondary Sources Sorting and Writing Activity This sorting and writing activity will walk your students through sorting key words and phrases into categories justifying their choices and writing about the topic.
Sorting is engaging fun and relevant. Primary and Secondary Sources. Primary sources may include memoirs oral interviews or accounts that were recorded later.
Secondary sources are written after the events have taken place by people who were not present at the events. Secondary sources also offer an analysis or a restatement of primary sources. They often attempt to describe or explain primary sources.
Examples of secondary sources include encyclopedias. This activity can serve as an introduction or a helpful formative assessment following the introduction of primary and secondary sources. Students will use a frayer model to assess whether a source is a primary or secondary source and why.
The completed example above is copied into the account when you click Use This Assignment. Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources. A record made by people who saw or took part in an event originates from the past Secondary Source.
A record of an event written by someone not there at the time Key question. Is this a primarysecondary source Ask yourself. Didcould the authorcreator witnessmake the artifact.
Yes primary source. No secondary source. A documentary on PBS about World War II Primary Secondary 5.
A newspaper article from 1912 about the sinking of the Titanic Primary Secondary 6. A speech given by Martin Luther King Primary Secondary 7. A magazine article about the War of 1812 Primary Secondary 8.
PRIMARY SOURCE 10. A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built. A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon. Reinforcement Activity 3 Contrasting and comparing primary and secondary sources Complete the matrix below. Categories Primary Source Memoirs of a General by Santiago Alvarez aka Gen.
Apoy Secondary Source Revolt of the Masses by Teodoro Agoncillo Authors Background Born on July 25 1872 at Noveleta Cavite. He was the only child of Gen. Maninam leader of.
The writer of a secondary source can provide his or her interpretation and analysis of events or a time period based on primary sources. A secondary source can include references to both primary and secondary sources while a primary source does not. For example an encyclopaedia entry on an individual can contain references to their personal handwritten letters.
Your GOAL is to. Locate a primary and secondary source about a topic and list your sources. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources.
Notes and categorize information and provide a list of sources. Learning Resources Matching Game. Primary and Secondary sources - Match the words with the type of source and match the definition with the word Log in New Activity Types of activities.
In this warm-up activity students review the difference between primary and secondary sources. Students practice working as a class in pairs and as individuals to determine the type of source. This social studies lesson is appropriate for students in 7th grade and it takes approximately 30 minutes of class time to complete.
TeachActive Engagement 10-15 mins. Primary sources provide first hand evidence of historical events. The authors of primary sources were actually present during the event.
Examples of primary sources are photographs maps postcards and manuscripts. However secondary sources are interpretations and opinions about primary sources. Return to the original two documents from the beginning of the session.
With students read through the documents checking for criteria learned in. This is a fun and engaging way to practice determining the difference between primary sources and secondary sources. Students will read an event and decide if it is describing primary or secondary sources then glue the box in the correct column.
An answer key is includedYou may also like this Colo. Secondary Sources A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event.
Secondary sources may have pictures quotes or graphics of primary sources in them. A history textbook A book about the effects of WWI Magazine articles about an event Encyclopedia Biography. Secondary Sources-Something written used owned AFTER a time in history that reflects analyzes or interprets an event in history.
Give three examples of secondary sources. Newspapers Assessment Questions- For each of the following mark P if the source is primary P or S if the source is secondary. A primary source is evidence of history.
Whether it is an object text or recording a primary source was created at the time a particular event occurred or was created by someone with firsthand knowledge of an event. A secondary source synthesizes or analyzes primary source material. Typically researchers produce secondary sources after an.
Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources Lesson Plan Description Students learn to differentiate between primary and secondary sources. Working in groups students will evaluate an example of both source types considering the advantages and disadvantages of using each in historical research. Records diaries journals and inventories are primary sources.
An account record or evidence derived from an original or primary source. Textbooks are secondary sources. Nazi Spy Ring Busted.