Creatively ComprehensiveTake your students’ basic understanding of primary and secondary sources to the next level with this resource! Students will learn WHERE to locate credible primary and secondary sources, and HOW to use these sources while researching historical events.
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Build Critical Thinking Skills
Our students may be experts at navigating the internet to use apps or play games, but academic research requires a whole different set of skills! This resource shows students how to use technology to look for credible sources, evaluate what they find, and synthesize the information to answer questions or draw conclusions. This is an important step on the path to being a critical consumer of media, which leads to better-informed citizens!
This product includes:
- “Using Technology to Find and Analyze Primary and Secondary Sources” Slideshow with Guided Notes– This 27-page slideshow includes two lessons with two correlating worksheets:
- Lesson 1: Students are introduced to credible websites that contain primary sources, such as libraries, museums, and newspaper archives. There is also a slide featuring kid-friendly search engines to gather secondary sources.
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- Lesson 2: Students analyze and make inferences about schooling in the late 1800s, using two primary sources.
- Research Project– Students will use the websites they were introduced to in the slideshow to conduct their own research about a historical person or event.
Grab a free Primary and Secondary Sources activity HERE!
What Other Teachers Say About Intro to Primary and Secondary Sources:
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“Excellent power point and worksheets! My first grader started using “primary” and “secondary” to describe her friends’ conversations! Works for multi-grade homeschool.”
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“My students were able to really grasp the concept of Primary and Secondary sources with this plan. Our culminating activity was recording what is like this year. It was a win!”
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