This year in World History students will work with two types of sources of information, Primary and Secondary.
Primary sources are first-hand accounts of information. They come from someone who was present at an event to witness it for them self. Examples include diary entries, letters, and interviews.
Secondary sources are second-hand accounts of information. They come from someone who was not present at an event, but instead researched about it. Examples include textbooks, encyclopedias, and websites.
More information on primary sources can be found at www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/primarysources.html and www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/instruction/help/primary.html.
Can you name any specific examples of primary sources in history?
What about secondary sources?
11 comments:
One example of a secondary source in history is a book like our school textbooks. They give us info, but they are not from the extual time periods of these events. A primary source can be a journal or a letter or a piece of clothing.
Nathan Terry
Excellent examples Nathan!
An example of a primary scource is the newspaper. This is because the reporters were actually at the spot witnessing whatever had happened.
My grandmother has letters from her uncle that he wrote in World War 1.
That is a primary source.
Patch
Some secondary sources are books, people who weren't there, enclyclopedias, articles, biography, text books, journals, magazines, newspapers, tv, video tapes, internet websites, and dictionaries.
Some primary sources are documents, diaries, interviews, speechs, letters, manuscripts, artifacts, autobiographies, discussions, people who were there, a debate, events, surveys, internet websites, government records, photographs, maps, posters, postcards, paintings, and songs.
Both secondary and primary sources are important to use in researching anything from the past.
By: Kasey Hemeon
An example of a primary source is the picture you showed us in class the other day with the social levels on it.
An example of a secondary source is an almanac.
Conner Traugot
An example of a primary source from history is the Diary of Anne Frank because it is from when the event actually happened. A secondary source is a biography because it was made after the person did certain things.
An example of a primary source would be a fossil in a museum, as it would be the imprint of something from a certain time period ages ago. An example of a secondary source would be a paper somebody from our time wrote about that certain fossil, because they were not there when the fossil was created years ago.
Allison Claroni
One example of a primary source is the Constitution. Both of these documents were handwritten by someone. It was written by someone who actually witnesses the event. We learn about it from secondary sources. We use a textbook! It's a secondary source because it contains true information but we got it from a primary source. So the company who created the textbook didn't actually witness these events.
In my first comment i meant to say the Constitution and The Declaration of Independance! Sorry
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