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Primary Sources- Learning About Your Community and Heritage


A. Thinking Like a History Detective
1. Think/pair/share activities - thinking like a detective.
    a) Your own experiences - Everyone has their own _____________.
    b) What is it? Identifying artifacts.


2. Detectives use __________ to try to figure out a problem. Clues are primary
sources.

B. Definition of a Primary Source
1. A primary source is any __________-hand information. This information
often comes from an ________-witness who saw or heard what first happened.
2. Then the information is recorded by:
    a)
    b)
    c)
    d)


C. Examples of Primary Sources

 How it is communicated  Examples of primary sources
 1. Oral  

 2. Artistic work

 

 

 3. Written

 

 

 4. Material items

 

Artifacts-

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