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What can we find out by looking at primary sources? _____________ are useful because they offer first person evidence about historical topics. Primary sources also allow for different ___________ of events and people. They let us make __________, and are almost always _________ and ___________. KEY TERMS: Primary source Interpretations Inferences Reliable Useful KEY TERMS: Primary source Interpretations Inferences Reliable Useful
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Examples of primary sources How many can you think of? Newspaper articles Magazine articles Poems Radio broadcasts Television programmes Films Photographs Blog posts Videos
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Why are primary sources sometimes useful?
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Why are primary sources sometimes less useful?
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Spot the primary source! PRIMARYSECONDARY Mateo is learning about how the First World War started. He uses a school text book, published in 2008.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Anna wants to learn about trench conditions. She uses photographs taken at the time which have been compiled in a book which was published in 2010.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Lauren is trying to find out about how people reacted to the Iraq war. She goes on Youtube and watches a BBC news report from when war was declared.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Benjamin is researching the reasons why some Germans supported Hitler and the Nazis. He reads a diary from the 1930s which was published in the 1980s.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Polina wants to know how many unemployed people there were in Germany in 1933. She uses a table of unemployment figures that he found in a book written in 1987.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Alex wants to know how many unemployed people there were in Germany in 1933. He uses a table of unemployment figures that he found in a book written in 1987.
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PRIMARYSECONDARY Celine wants to know who was to blame for starting the Second World War, so he reads a British newspaper article from 1939. CHALLENGE: WHY WOULD THIS BE UNRELIABLE?!
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Just a Minute One student starts to speak about primary sources. At the first repetition, pause or mistake another takes over - and so on until the minute is up. 1 1
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One of you will be chosen at random to explain primary sources to the rest of the class! WHAT IS A PRIMARY SOURCE? GIVE SOME EXAMPLES. WHY ARE PRIMARY SOURCES USEFUL? WHY ARE THEY SOMETIMES UNRELIABLE? 2 2
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TOP 3 Primary sources are useful because… 1) They are interesting to read 2) They usually give a good indication of what really happened 3) They use old-fashioned language 4) You get to understand how people at the time felt 5) They are important evidence so we don’t forget what happened 3 3
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