This geography unit helps you assess your students' knowledge while giving them the practice they need to learn about primary and secondary sources.

The fun and engaging worksheets are a great addition to any social studies unit. Each worksheet transforms your class into an engaging classroom. Using this material, your students will gain a better understanding of primary and secondary sources. The informational pages included provides a handy guide for teachers when teaching this unit. The worksheets engage the mind while reinforcing student understanding through activities such as multiple choice questions, drawing activities, writing prompts, and more. The answer key is included.

This Activity aligns with the Social Studies Standards:

• SS.3.A.1.1 Analyze primary and secondary sources.

They can complete the activities on paper or on a computer using Google Classroom. This resource is divided into the following sections, and within each section are ready-to-print resources and engaging activities

Introduction to Primary and Secondary Sources

It has a brief history of the subject, with an overview of all the most important points. It also includes diagrams and illustrations to help illustrate what they're learning and make it more fun. 

Engaging Activities

✍️ Compare and contrast primary sources and secondary sources

✍️ Cut and sort the clues whether they are primary sources or secondary sources

✍️ Color the box if the statement is a primary or secondary source

✍️ Write a primary and secondary account of an event that happened to you last summer

✍️ Write a primary and secondary account of an interesting story that happened to your friend or family

✍️ Describe the primary and secondary source

✍️ Give 5 examples of primary and secondary sources

✍️ Identify if the given scenarios are secondary primary or secondary sources

✍️ Multiple choice questions

✍️ Fill in the blanks with the correct answer

✍️ Identify what source the person in the comic strip is trying to convey

✍️ Reading passages with related questions

✍️ Identify if the given source is a primary or secondary source and explain why it is true

✍️ Sources word search from the paragraph given

✍️ Complete the exit ticket about a primary source and a secondary source

Answer Key to Activities

All Social Studies Activities include an answer key that is available as PDF and Google Slides. The answer key is a valuable resource to use in the classroom, or at home, as they help students learn how to explain their answers, check if their explanations are correct, and improve their knowledge and thinking skills.

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