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WorksheetsPrimary v Secondary Sources
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
When you research a topic, you should use ... (you can click more than one answer)
only your knowledge
Primary Sources (letters, journals)
Wikipedia only
Secondary Sources (articles, textbook, videos)
Primary sources provide (give) ... (one answer only)
A re-telling of the event that happened by someone who was not there
First-hand evidence (re-telling) of the event by someone who was there
Only opinions and biases, which means they can't be trusted
Only facts with zero opinions, which means they should always be trusted
Examples of Primary Sources include ... (can click more than one)
Journals
Works of art
Tweets
statistical data
Statistical data is a Primary Source because ... (one answer)
they are numbers representing facts about an event
numbers never lie and neither do Primary sources
they aren't! They are Secondary Sources
Primary Sources are when people who witness the event write about it - why should we always get more than one Primary Source?
Because it will impress the teacher
Because one person's story is not all people's story - there may be inaccurate opinions or facts in their story
You actually never need Primary Sources when researching
A biography written by Mr. Rod about Abraham Lincoln is a ... (more than one)
Primary Source because it is about Abraham Lincoln's life
Secondary Source because Mr. Rod is not Abraham Lincoln, so it is not a first-hand account of the events
Secondary Source because Lincoln is dead, so Mr. Rod could not interview him for first-hand accounts
A secondary source is ...
a second-hand account of the event that happened
an interview
a first-hand account of the event that happened
A secondary source can be ... (more than one answer)
a review or commentary on the event many days, months, or years after the event happened
full of inaccurate facts and opinions, just like a primary source
a Tweet by the president talking about something s/he witnessed
The person writing the secondary source ... (one answer)
witnessed the event and wrote it down
either heard about it from people who were there or researched a lot of information about the event
is always wrong
Check off examples of Secondary Sources (more than one)
The news (CNN10, Fox, etc)
movie reviews
the movie director's daily journal about making the movie
someone who saw a soccer game and then told you about it
We always want to mix and have a lot of Primary and Secondary Sources when we research because ... (more than one)
the more facts and opinions we have about an event the more we understand the event
it will impress the teacher
we can compare the first and second hand accounts and spot the false facts easier
Wikipedia isn't a good source
