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Social Studies Class » Primary and Secondary Resources
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Primary and Secondary Resources
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Primary and Secondary Sources Clues left from the past make up the historical record. These clues include both primary and secondary sources in the form of books, personal papers, government documents, letters, oral accounts, diaries, maps, photographs, reports, artifacts, coins, stories, stamps, etc. Primary sources provide firsthand evidence of historical events. They are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing, journals, speeches, interviews, diaries, videos, autobiographies, artifacts, etc. Secondary sources summarize, explain,comment on, or draw conclusions from primary sources. They are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after the event. Examples of secondary sources are textbooks, encylopedias, etc.  To practice identifying secondary sources.
To play a game and practice identifying primary and secondary sources. To practice indentifying primary and secondary sources. Examples of Primary and Secondary Sources | Subject | Primary Source | Secondary Source | | Media studies | Record: Magazine circulation figures | Article about reading habits | | Political Science | Record: Voting statistics | Book about elections | | History | Document: Surrender agreement | Essay about the end of the war | | Anthropology | Document: Tape recording of men & women talking about their jobs | Essay about gender roles at work | | Art | Creative work: Original painting | Biography of the painter | | English | Creative work: Novel | Review or critique of the novel | | Medicine | *Research: Medical scientists report on drug tests | Advertisement quoting the test results | | Psychology | *Research: Report of an empirical study of the relationship between parenting behavior and juvenile crime | Newspaper article about parenting that mentions the study | from: Lake Sumter Community College Guidelines to Determine Whether a Source is Primary or Secondary
| Primary Source | Secondary Source | | Written first | Written second | | Published in a scholarly journal | Found in the popular media | | Several pages long | Usually much shorter | | Written by the people who did the research | Written by others | | Written for other scholars or professionals | | | Follows a scientific model: usually includes an abstract, a statement of the question under investigation, a description of the research methods, a report of the results, and a discussion of the researchers conclusions. | | from: Lake Sumter Community College Online Sites for Primary Sources American Memory Timeline Charters of Freedom Archiving Early America Maryland State Archives American Rhetoric National Archive Repositories of Primary Sources Rare Map Collection The Authentic History Center Core Documents of US History
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