1. What is your schema?
1. On a Post-It note write one example of a primary source and one example of a secondary source P = _______ S = _______
2. Write your name on the back Place your Post-It on the Parking
Lot poster when done!

2. Using Primary and Secondary Sources to Effectively Research

3. Nothing in history happens in a vacuum!
When you are researching, it is important to understand the connections between your topic and the time period.
Begin reading about the time period and as you read ask yourself questions:
Why did my research topic happen at this particular time and in this particular place?
What were the events or the influences that came before my research topic?
How do each of the seven themes of social studies: history, economics, science & technology, geography, culture, citizenship & government, influence each other with my research topic?

4. Primary Sources What is it? What is the purpose? Examples:
A first-hand, original account, record, or evidence about a person, place, object, or an event.
Information about a historical event or period in which the creator of the source was an actual participant
What is the purpose?
Capture the words, thoughts and the intentions of the past.
Help interpret what happened and why it happened.
Examples:
Documents: newspapers, ledgers, census records, maps, diaries, journals, songs and inventories
Artifacts, historic sites, oral histories, objects, photographs

5. Secondary Source Examples: What is it? What is the purpose?
An account, record, or evidence derived from an original or primary source.
Was not created first-hand by someone who participated in the historical era.
Secondary sources are usually created by historians, but based on the historian's reading of primary sources, and usually created years, decades, or centuries after the event.
What is the purpose?
Help build the story of your research from multiple perspectives and to give your research historical context
Examples:
Textbooks, biographies, articles, encyclopedias
Wikipedia is an online secondary source (and never recommended for research!)

6. What It Really Means Rewrite the definitions below in your own words.
Source – a person, publication, or object that gives information
Primary – not made or coming from something else; original
Firsthand – coming directly from the original source
Secondary – coming from or created using an original source
Secondhand – not original; taken from someone or something else

7. Primary Source PRIMARY SOURCE first person account documents
physical artifacts
interviews
photographs
weather records

8. Primary? = STAND Secondary? = SIT
An actor's diary Primary
A textbook on acting Secondary
Encyclopedia article about Pearl Harbor Secondary
Book about pioneer women Secondary
Autobiography of Maya Angelou Primary
Biography of Thomas Jefferson Secondary
The Constitution Primary
Commentary on Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address Secondary
Clothes belonging to Martha Washington Primary

9. Applying the Skill Worksheet
P or S
_____ 1. a newspaper article
_____ 2. a private journal
_____ 3. a biography
_____ 4. a political cartoon
_____ 5. a woven Asian tapestry
_____ 6. a textbook on the history of Asia
_____ 7. a photograph of a family vacation
_____ 8. a magazine article on the history of Texas
_____ 9. an autobiography
_____ 10. a property deed P S P P S P S P P

10. Interactive Activity www.brainpop.com
Research

11. Source Scenarios
Read aloud your card and ask your group if they think it is primary or secondary and WHY!!
Please remember T E A M
Only the person with the bean bag is allowed to speak.

12. Why are primary and secondary sources important?
Research with both primary and secondary sources helps to confirm the accuracy of information.
Using solely primary sources can leave room for too much interpretation or speculation.
Secondary sources can help place objects or documents in context when experience in the content is limited.

13. Consider this example….
It is 4:05 and you are standing at the corner to cross the street to go home. Two cars collide at the intersection. You saw it happen. You are a primary source. You run into the building to tell the principal. The principal calls the police. The principal is not a primary source- he/she was not there when it happened- he/she is just passing on information they got from someone else. The policeman asks you to draw a little map of where the cars were coming from when they collided. The map is a primary source- it was drawn by someone who was there. When you get home, you write about it in your journal or diary. The journal is a primary source- it was written by someone who was actually there during the event. The report provided by the principal and police would be considered secondary sources based on primary source information.
Using both primary and secondary sources TOGETHER will help confirm whether your interpretation of the data (event) is correct!

14. Using the Internet for Research…
Always use a suitable search engine, primary or secondary databases.
Miss Wise’s “Resources” on class website
Websites that end in: .org or .edu
Teacher approved websites
Do not use google, yahoo, msn, bing or wikipedia for cited research
Use multiple resources
Confirm secondary source information through primary sources and vice versa
Record your data & websites

15. Primary & Secondary Source Sort
Primary Sources
Diary of a Civil War soldier
Video from the front lines of war
An autobiography of Albert Einstein
Network Broadcast of a Congressional hearing
Your notes from a lecture in class
Classified ads from a newspaper
An interview with Tiger Woods
Secondary Sources
A review of a best-selling book
A history of Ancient Egypt
An article about professional football players
A biography of Madame Curie

16. Homework Challenge Due Monday
Pick a topic relating to what we are studying in Chapter 3.
Find a primary source to bring to class on Monday.
Use links from Miss Wise’s class website
Be ready to share
Where did you find this primary source?
How do you know it is a primary source?
What can we learn from this primary source?

17. EXIT Ticket Define “primary source” in your own words
List an example of a primary source that you have used or you have created.
Define “secondary source” in your own words.
List an example of a secondary source that you have used or you have created.