Primary vs Secondary Review

Which of the following are considered primary sources?

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True or False: Secondary sources often draw from one or more primary sources?

• True

• False

Which of the following are secondary sources?

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Is your Social Studies textbook a primary source or a secondary source? (Type primary OR secondary)

When you’re doing research about an event, person or period in history, you want to look for historical sources of information. Some sources are considered primary sources, and others are considered secondary sources.

Which of the following best describes historical sources?

• When people imagine events from the past and write about them to create historical sources

• Secondary sources are historical because they analyze information, but primary sources are not historical

• Historical sources come from witnesses and from people who study accounts of witnesses.

• Primary sources are fictional, while secondary sources are nonfiction - both are historical.

A report about the life of Abraham Lincoln written by a 6th grade student is a primary source or a secondary source?

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

True or False? A source that tells you about an event and is from or created during that time period is a secondary source?

• True

• False

What is your first name?