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Here are the teacher pack items for Primary and Secondary Sources:
Overview In this experience, students learn to differentiate between primary and secondary sources. Next they evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of source. Then they conduct a search to identify primary and secondary sources for a given topic. Finally they use the sources they found to write a short informative piece. Students will collaborate in small groups for scene 3 and scene 4. Objective Duration
When historians do research, they look at many different sources to learn about an event or time period. Some of the sources come from that time period and others were written later about the time period. In this experience, you will learn about these different types of sources.
Objective
Which class’s notes would you expect to be least useful?
Lead a discussion about the responses. Point out that the most useful notes would be the ones directly from the teacher. Next most useful would be notes taken in class by someone who was there. But secondhand information is by nature less dependable. Someone who is even one person removed from the information brings his own attitudes, beliefs, and perhaps even faulty processing of the information to bear.
