1. Research Tools: Primary and Secondary Sources
1. Types of projects they can create:
- Documentary
- Paper
- Performance
- Exhibit
- Website
2. What is a primary resource?
3. What have you found so far?
4. What has happened to you that you can create/develop a primary resource?

2. Finding Primary Sources
What is it?
First-person or eyewitness accounts, personal stories to express the impact on the individual and to help capture feelings and emotions of the time.
National History Day definition:
A primary source is a piece of information about a historical event or period in which the creator of the source was an actual participant in or a contemporary of a historical moment. The purpose of primary sources is to capture the words, the thoughts and the intentions of the past. Primary sources help you to interpret what happened and why it happened. Examples of primary sources include documents, artifacts, historic sites, speeches, songs, letters, journals, or other written and tangible items created during the historical period you are studying.
What have you been alive for to be a primary resource?
What have I been alive for to be a primary resource? 9/11

3. Finding Primary Sources
Finding primary source images and documents
Edutopia
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National History Day
Bachelor’s Degree online
sites-to-find-primary-source-history-documents/
1. Sites that have compiled other resources – show these sites, no searching within.
2. Edutopia
-mentions National Archives, Life Magazine
3. National History Day
- SCROLL DOWN to view sites by topic (Civil war, African American, Native American, Colonial History, Women’s History)
4. Bachelor’s Degree Online
- Library and Museum sites
- topics like art history, classics, then birth and death records, newspapers

4. Primary Sources National Archives Docs Teach
Docs Teach
Life Magazine photo archive
National Archives
- use search box to look up San Francisco earthquake
- click on San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
- can show these: building destruction, bread line, cooking outside
- at bottom go to Find out More and click on 1st one
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- next page click on continue and will see series of docs
- the bartender is Harry Loy- 3rd down
Life Magazine
- look up people like Rosa Parks, Gandhi
- browse through decades, places, events, sports and culture
Google search look for reputable organizations and event specific pages (.org, .edu)

5. Discover Colorado History
Colorado Historic Newspapers
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History Colorado
Colorado Encyclopedia
Colorado Historic Newspapers
- click TOPIC tab
- select BICYCLES from drop down menu
- click on the first link, FIERY UNTAMED BICYCLES
Docs Teach
- select from drop down menu YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
- select any of the images or documents as examples
- highlight the PRINT DOCUMENT AND DETAIL LINK

6. Broomfield Library Resources
Find this Power Point
Library Catalog
Library’s Teen Zone Database Page (*may need a library card)
Secondary sources for: analysis, perspective, framework of event, summary
2. Select the link from Find this Power Point
- show power point link