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Identifying Primary And Secondary Sources - History Worksheet With Answer Key

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Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Determine if the source would be a Primary Source(P) or a secondary Source(S).

A n s w e r s

• 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.

1) A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm.

2) A short story describing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's 'electrical' battle.

3) Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2.

4) A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith.

5) A text book describing the civil rights movement.

10.

6) A news report about the opening of a power plant.

11.

7) A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.

12.

8) A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built.

13.

9) An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.

14.

10) A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

15.

11) An autobiography about the 40th president, Ronald Reagan.

12) A book describing Christopher Columbus sailing to America.

13) A famous artist's painting of what cowboy life was probably like.

14) A journal by a cowboy about the cattle drives from Texas to Kansas.

15) The United States Constitution.

1-10 93 87 80 73 67 60 53 47 40 33

Math

11-15 27 20 13 7

Identifying Primary And Secondary Sources - History Worksheet With Answer Key