PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES

7th grade Social Studies

Primary Source

a document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created or otherwise produced during the time under study.

Offers an inside view of a particular event (eyewitness)

TYPES OF PRIMARY SOURCES

Original Documents

Creative Works

Artifacts and Relics

Letters, diaries, autobiographies, official records, photographs, emails, speeches, interviews

Music, art, novels, poetry, drama

Buildings, clothing, furniture, jewelry, pottery

Secondary Sources

interprets and analyzes primary sources.

1 or more steps removed from event

May have pictures of or quotes from primary sources in them

TYPES OF SECONDARY SOURCES

Publications

Textbooks, magazines articles, encyclopedia, commentary

EXAMPLES

Cave Painting Birth Certificate Roman Coins Medieval Castle in

Europe

Book written today about ancient Egyptian mummification process

History textbook Journal/Magazine

article with reviews of previous findings

Primary Secondary