Gathering Historical Information

What are Primary Sources?

• These are any source that give information about historians.

• These are sources that give second hand information.

• These are sources that give original information about past activities.

• These are sources that are found in primary schools for students to use.

This means to write something down for later use.

• Facts

• Records

• Data

• Prepare

Letters, diaries, newspapers, and journals are all examples of

• Written sources

• Oral sources

• Oral traditions

• Artifacts

Most historians when find a historical source, they check to see if the information they get is true. What action is being done?

• Finding evidence

• Checking the record

• Verifying the information

• interpreting the information

Many Africans usually gather around and tell stories in order to keep their traditions alive. This is a form of

• Oral Tradition

• Secondary source

• Artefacts

• Pictorial evidence

My great great grandmother was an African slave and worked on several plantations in Jamaica. Is my grandmother a / an__._________

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Artifact

• historian

How can you be a history detective?

• Be curious and ask important questions, find evidence and explore for clues of the past

• Believe everything you see without asking if is true

• Repeating stories you hear without finding evidence

• Foward information you get from internet

A girl found a box of letters written by a soldier to his wife and children during the Civil War. Are those letters...

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

_____________ is where there are no written historical evidence.

• Preliterate society

• Literate society

Identify the two major tools that are used by historians.

• oral evidence and written evidence

• shovels and brushes

• primary sources and secondary sources

• secondary sources and oral sources