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Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Lorraine Zupan 15 questions

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  1. 1A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  2. 2A short story describing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's 'electrical' battle.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  3. 3Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  4. 4A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  5. 5A text book describing the civil rights movement.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  6. 6A news report about the opening of a power plant.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  7. 7A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  8. 8A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  9. 9An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source
  10. 10A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
    1. APrimary Source
    2. BSecondary Source

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• 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.
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