Primary and Secondary Sources Activities - Social Studies Unit 3rd 4th 5th Grade
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This extensive Primary and Secondary Sources unit is great for teaching, reinforcing, practicing, and assessing student understanding of this important social studies concept. Your students will learn how to analyze primary and secondary source material through guided lessons, worksheets, sorts, and activities, with a fun project at the end!
This best-selling unit is:
- Comprehensive - can be a standalone resource or a supplement to your existing curriculum
- Easy-to-Use - includes lesson plans as well as a suggested schedule
- Versatile - works at the beginning or end of the year...and any time in between!
- Suitable for multiple grades - third, fourth, and fifth graders can benefit
After your students complete this unit, you'll be amazed at how well they grasp comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts!
Included In This Resource:
- "Learning About Primary and Secondary Sources" Slideshow with Guided Notes- walk your students through what sources are as well as the difference between two types of sources, checking for understanding as you go.
- "A Closer Look at Sources" Slideshow with Guided Notes- students explore selected sources in depth, thinking about how and why they are used.
- Supplemental Activities- anchor charts and cut-and-paste sorts provide additional scaffolding.
- Task Cards- real-world examples to help students determine primary vs. secondary sources.
- Assessment: Four real-life scenarios in which students have to analyze which type of source it is and explain how they know.
- Future History Maker Project- your students will apply their knowledge of primary and secondary sources by creating a museum exhibit about their future accomplishments! An engaging choice board plus easy-to-use templates will make it a breeze for them to create primary and secondary sources for their projects.
- Digital Elements: you can access the worksheets, task cards, and Future History Maker on both Easel and Google Slides.
Your students need to understand this concept to be successful in social studies, not to mention in life! Now more than ever, citizens must know how to analyze source types when educating themselves about past or present events.
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"Primary and secondary sources can be confusing but this has been a fun and engaging set of lessons and activities! Thank you!"
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"Great supplement to my social studies curriculum! Thank you! The definitions were very easy for my 3rd graders to understand."
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"Excellent PowerPoint and worksheets! My first grader started using "primary" and "secondary" to describe her friends' conversations! This works for multi-grade homeschooling."
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"My students could really grasp the concept of Primary and Secondary sources with this plan. Our culminating activity was recording what it was like (in 2020). It was a win!"
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