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Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary and Secondary Sources. 6 th Social Studies Ms. Christensen. What is History?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m3WCVAuG8&feature=player_detailpage . What Can History Tell You?. History is the story of the past. It teaches us about where we came from. History is all around us.

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Primary and Secondary Sources

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  1. Primary and Secondary Sources 6th Social Studies Ms. Christensen

  2. What is History? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m3WCVAuG8&feature=player_detailpage

  3. What Can History Tell You? • History is the story of the past. • It teaches us about where we came from. • History is all around us. • Buildings • Photos • Grandparents • We are making history. • What we do today is tomorrow’s history. • Hairstyles, sports, music, cars….

  4. How Do We Learn About History? • Historians are people who study what has happened in the past. • Historians use many different sources to determine what happened in the past. • Two types of sources are primary and secondary. • Historians are like detectives trying to figure out what life was like long ago and primary and secondary sources provide the evidence needed.

  5. Primary Source? What is that? Ideas? Primary Source- materials that were created during the time under study.

  6. Types of Primary Sources • Diaries • Scrapbooks • Sketchbooks • Interviews • Letters • Pamphlets • Documents • Speeches • Photos • Clothing • Toys • Furniture • Buildings • Audio/Video recordings • Art

  7. How we use Primary sources

  8. Secondary Source? What is that? Ideas? Secondary Sources- records of the past that are based on studies of primary sources.

  9. Types of Secondary Sources • Textbooks • Class Lectures • Historical articles • Historical Non-Fiction Books • Encyclopedias • Dictionaries • Web sites • Biographies • Documentaries

  10. How we use Secondary sources

  11. Things That Are Not Good Sources • Historical Fiction • Blogs • Wikipedia

  12. Which is Which? • Activity: Pass around sources…tables must identify which kind of source it is…primary or secondary and how it could be used. May work as groups • ??????

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