Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Description

• A Primary Source is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in the event. Diaries, speeches, letters, official records, autobiographies. • A Secondary Source is information from somewhere else or by a person not directly involved in the event. Encyclopedias, textbooks, book reports.
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Question 1

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A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 2

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A short story describing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's 'electrical' battle.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 3

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Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 4

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A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 5

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A text book describing the civil rights movement.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 6

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A news report about the opening of a power plant.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 7

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A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 8

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A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 9

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An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 10

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A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 11

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An autobiography about the 40th president, Ronald Reagan.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 12

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A book describing Christopher Columbus sailing to America.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 13

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A famous artist's painting of what cowboy life was probably like.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 14

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A journal by a cowboy about the cattle drives from Texas to Kansas.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

Question 15

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The United States Constitution.
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  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
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