Showing posts with label What are Primary and Secondary Sources?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What are Primary and Secondary Sources?. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Timelinks Grade 5 What are Primary and Secondary Sources?

Now more than ever everyone needs to know Critical Thinking.  How do we evaluate a source? What criteria do we use? How do we know that a source is credible? Should we believe or not?





  
Read pages  7-11
Key Terms
pamphlet - a short publication. 
encyclopedia  - a book or a set of books that categorizes information  

Pronunication
usually           u zha li 
encyclopedia  en si klo pe de a 

Questions:
What is a primary source? 
Give an example.
What is is a secondary source? 
Give an example. 
Who was Thomas Paine? What did he write? Is this Primary or Secondary source? 
Who was Abigail Adams? What did she write? Is this a Primary or Secondary source? 

Which type of source do you most rely on? 
How can we tell the difference between a primary source or a secondary source? 

Tell about a modern primary source.
Tell about a modern secondary source. 

Homework: 
Write a diary entry for what you did yesterday. 
Is this a primary or a secondary source? 


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