Learn about primary and secondary sources.

Primary Sources
Primary sources are when someone writes about something they experienced. If someone wrote a diary during World War II about things they expericenced then that diary would be a primary source.

Secondary Sources
Secondary Sources are when someone writes about something they heard about. If someone born in 1966 wrote a textbook about the Civil War it would be a secondary source because they did not experience it first hand, they heard about it.

Social Studies/Time Continuity and Change

Standard 1: The student
understands historical
chronology and the historical perspective(SS.A.1.3)

Objective 2: Knows the
relative value of primary and
secondary sources and
uses this information to draw conclusions from historical
sources such as data in
charts, tables, graphs.

Amusement Park Activity

Primary Source - Go to an amusement park and write a
primary source about your
experience there.

Secondary Source - Write
a short book about an
amusement park you have
heard about but not been to.

Brainstorming Fun

Idea 1. Make a list of 20 books
organizing them into primary and
secondary sources.

Vocabulary

Sources -The point of beginning, or
start.

Data- Factual information,
especially information
organized for analysis or
used to reason or make
decisions.

Did You Know?

THe United States, in turn,
agreed that British merchants
could colect debts owned by Americans.