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ELED 436 - Teaching Social Studies to Diverse Learners

What are Primary Sources?

  • First-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection
  • Autobiographies
  • Newspaper reports from the period
  • Speeches, diaries, letters and interviews
  • Maps and Flags Photographs, video, or audio that capture an event
  • Music and sculpture

Primary Sources for Your Country

Using Primary Sources with Kindergarten Students