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Primary and Secondary Sources Examples from the KASL list: •Primary
sources is like having an ice cream cone in your hand. •from LMC Library Media Connection page 43 - examples of primary and secondary sources An
actor's diary ---- A textbook on acting •Jim Murphy's books (Great Fire, Blizzard, etc.) are excellent examples of good use of primary source material to create a secondary source. •Copy some examples from library books or encyclopedias and make overhead transparencies. After discussing some of these, give response cards (one with P for primary, the other with S for secondary). Show some more examples and have the kids show their repsonse card. This is a quick way to see if they are catching on. Their social studies book is also a resource (at least, the ones we use have many primary examples as well as secondary). •You can always use the KS flag. Log on to American Memories for photographs, speeches, letters, etc. •Use the following example: It is 3:05 and you are standing at the corner to cross the street to go home. Two cars collide at the intersection. You saw it happen. Y ou 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 somone who was actually there during the event. •Another example: I have an old teddy bear named Boo. I always thought I got Boo when I was a baby, and then I found a picture of me unwrapping Boo at Christmas when I was 2 years old. The picture is a primary source- it was taken at the event. My parents told me it was true. I didn't get Boo until I was two. They are primary sources. They were there. Boo is also a primary source--the actual artifact. You could tell this story using a bear and a photo. •A primary source would be a diary about something that happened to a person, like traveling West on the Oregon Trail. A secondary source would be a book written using information from a diary. Primary=U.S. Constitution-- Secondary=a book explaining it. •Use the governor's State of the State address as a primary source and then a newspaper commentary about it the next day. Another way might be to show a snippet of a documentary like Ken Burn's Civil War, emphasizing that the black and white photos are primary sources, taken at the time of the people involved-- the commentary of the narrator is secondary-- unless he is reading a letter which was written in 1861 or beyond. •From the Curricular Standards document: primary source- a first-hand account of an event, person, or place: official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony [autobiography] secondary source- an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand: textbook information, historically-based movies, biographies •If you have Laura's Album, there are great pictures and other primary sources. Also use journals or a diary. I have a pioneer diary which I compare to the secondary sources. •Make up a little game that makes them be the researcher. Primary: a letter, an interview, an object, original Secondary: textbook explanation, newspaper account, picture of an object, copy
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