Primary vs secondary sources activities

This free poster set includes photographs of various primary and secondary sources for students in grades 3-5. The set also comes with three "Think About It" questions to help get your students thinking critically about the materials they're using. Use this as a bulletin board in your classroom or during your Primary and Secondary Sources unit.

Investigate the difference between primary and secondary sources with this helpful social studies worksheet!

Primary and Secondary Sources Anchor Chart

As a fifth grade inclusion teacher, I try to make a lot of my social studies lessons hands-on.

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Analyze documents with your students to teach about primary & secondary resources. Find free lesson plans & engaging classroom activities at StoryboardThat!

As we begin to move into our exploration unit, we are first looking at primary and secondary sources to make sure we have a good handle on what falls into what category. Most of the students were "kind of" familiar with these source types, so that helped to have a little background knowledge when we delved into exploring them further. Since these are such important concepts in social studies--and other content areas too!--it is really important that students know what each is and can…

Primary vs. Secondary Sources via Ashford University Library

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Students will gain a deeper understanding of primary source texts by reconstructing them before analyzing them. #primarysourceanalysis #highschoolhistory #middleschoolsocialstudies