Learning About the Past

Lesson 2:  What sources can we use to find information to learn about the past?

KSO: Students will be expected to identify, evaluate and use primary and secondary sources to reconstruct and interpret the past.

Materials: the title pages made in lesson 1 (Introduction); primary/ secondary sources worksheet

Activities:

1.       With the whole class record all of the sources of information about the past that students used in Lesson 1. 

2.     Discuss the meaning of primary and secondary when using these words to define sources of information.

3.     In cooperative groups decide to which heading each listed source would belong.

4.     Bring disputed sources to the class for discussion and a final decision.

5.     Complete the “Sort the Sources” worksheet and glue it into the Social Studies scribbler.