4th grade week 2

What are interviews, recorded on audio or video, with someone who experienced an event in the past?

• archaeologists

• artifacts

• oral histories

• primary sources

What are man-made objects that help us learn about past civilizations and how they developed?

• archaeologists

• artifacts

• oral histories

• primary sources

Who are scientists who excavate and study items left behind by people throughout history?

• Archaeologists

• artifacts

• oral histories

• primary sources

What are created by people who saw or experienced something?

• archaeologists

• artifacts

• oral histories

• primary sources

Which of these is NOT a primary source?

• biography

• books

• letters

• newspaper articles

Interviewing a parent, grandparent, or teacher about their ____ life can be a primary source.

• child's

• own

• parent's

• friend's

What are made by people who didn't see or experience the event?

• archaeologists

• oral histories

• primary sources

• secondary sources

Which of the following is NOT a secondary source?

• biography

• letter

• magazine article

• textbook

Secondary sources are usually created by people who have studied primary sources and then provide____.

• fictional stories

• historical fiction

• magazine articles

• their interpretation

Why do historians analyze sources?

• to answer questions about the past

• to write a history book

• to create a movie

• to tell the future