Introduction to Research (Part 2)

Aim: How do we locate, access and record research sources?

Write Now: What is the difference between a primary resource and a secondary resource?

Based on your Write Now…

What is the difference between a primary resource and a secondary resource?

Share your answer with the people sitting next to you.

What is the difference between a primary resource and a secondary resource?

• Share out ideas you heard from the people sitting next to you. Example: John’s idea was …

• In your notes write down examples that students share.

1.Wonder2.Seek3.Choose4.Connect5.Produce6.Judge

Seek Locating & Accessing Resources

We can locate information in several places and formats:

•Internet & Research software (At home/school computer),

•Film & television (At home)

•Books (library/school)

We access information by knowing what type it is:

• primary source

• secondary source

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Evidence left behind by participants or

observers.

Work that interprets or analyzes a historical

event or phenomenon.

Get as close as possible to the truth of

what actually happened during a

historical event or time period.

At least one step removed from the event. Sometimes

they include primary resources and discuss

or analyze them.

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Diary, memoir, journal, autobiography from a person that lived then.

Published journal or magazine discussing life in that era.

Speech made during that era.

Speech referring to that era.

Interview done during that time or of a person that lived in that time.

Textbooks, encyclopedias, trade books, published materials about that era

Government records created during that era.

Charts & maps that report events during that era.

Seek Locating & Accessing Resources

Once we find information we must make a record of where we found it to:

•Be able to find it in the future

•Give credit to the people who wrote it

•Properly cite sources in the research paper

•Create a bibliography

Seek Locating & Accessing ResourcesWe record source information by writing the following:

•title, •type of source, •brief description of source, •author(s), •date of publication, •city of publication, •volume used (if applicable) •page numbers used (if applicable)

Let’s Practice Recording Sources!Using one of the books provided, write the following in your notes:

•title (some titles have more than one part), •type of source, •brief description of source, •author(s), •date of publication, •city of publication, •volume used (if applicable) •page numbers used (if applicable)

Reflect & Summarize

How do we locate, access and record research sources?