Primary & Secondary sources

Primary &
Secondary
Sources

Open Ended

What do you think is the difference between primary and secondary sources?

Primary & Secondary Sources

Open Ended

What do you think is the difference between primary & secondary souces?

Things to look for in a source:

• Peer-reviewed

• Credible author

• Unbiased

Credible sourcing

• "Original documents created at the time of study"

• Diaries, newspapers, pictures, government documents, minutes

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Primary
Sources

• Journal Articles, books written by historians, documentaries, etc.

• Anything written using primary sources

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Secondary Sources

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a primary source?

• An opinion article covering the EU bailout of Greece

• Meeting minutes from the EU regarding payments to Greece

• An economics textbook covering EU's economic bailouts of Greece

• A reddit post talking about why the EU is bad and why Greece should be nuked because they're poor

Multiple Choice

Is this source primary or secondary?

• Primary

• Secondary

Multiple Choice

Is this source primary or secondary?

• Primary

• Secondary

Multiple Choice

Is this source primary or secondary?

• Primary

• Secondary