Historians are Detectives

Resource Type
Classroom Material
Subjects
History
Grade Levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
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Historians are Detectives

In the classroom activity, students will be able to explain the difference between primary and secondary sources, and explain how the value of using primary sources is important to history. By using primary sources to answer a series of questions, they will see that, much like detectives, historians…