Unit 1 Lesson 1: Historical Sources

Unit 1 Lesson 1: Historical Sources

Learning to evaluate or judge Primary & Secondary Sources

Multiple Choice

Studying history or the past is like being a doctor or a detective?

Multiple Choice

Historians study ARTIFACTS in order to figure out what happened in the past. What is an ARTIFACT?

• An object or something made by a person that can be used to explain the time period or what life was like when they lived.

• A piece of equipment used to fix a car.

Multiple Select

Which one of these is an example of an artifact or something made by human beings that can tell us about the past?

Primary Sources...

• are ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS OR OBJECTS from a time in the past.

• give us a FIRSTHAND account of what really happened.

• are the BUILDING BLOCKS of history.

• allow you to see history through the eyes of the people who actually WITNESSED it.

Poll

Do you write in a diary or journal, take pictures or make videos to remember events and people from your life?

Poll

How do you document, capture or save your past?

Multiple Choice

POP QUIZ: Primary sources are _______ documents or objects from the past.

Multiple Choice

POP QUIZ: Primary sources give us a _________ of what really happened in the past.

Video: Primary vs. Secondary Sources

https://youtu.be/o1og03RKuhU