★Primary and Secondary Sources
Grade 4 Social Studies Worksheet
NameDate
Circle the primary source in each group.
- A biography of a president, written by a historian.
- A news special looking back on a flood from ten years ago.
- A speech given by a mayor at the opening of a park, as written down that day.
- A map in an atlas showing the routes of explorers, drawn by a modern mapmaker.
- A poster a student made about the Gold Rush.
- A bill of sale for a horse, signed in 1855.
- A photograph taken at a town parade in 1920.
- A chart in a book that sums up how many settlers came by wagon.
- A student's essay about the building of the canal.
- A teacher's slide show about the Oregon Trail.
- A drawing a child made of her town in 1910.
- An article about how the first telephone worked, written in 2019.
- A photograph of workers building a bridge, taken while they worked.
- A song written last year about the railroad workers of long ago.
- A textbook chapter about the Pony Express, written last year.
- A book about life on the frontier, written by a teacher.
- A journal kept by a lighthouse keeper in 1890.
- A magazine article about the 1906 earthquake, written in 2020.
- A museum website article about ancient Egypt.
- A school play about the first Thanksgiving.
- An interview with a woman who lived through the big storm of 1960.
- A model of a Roman road built by a class.
- A documentary film made in 2015 about the 1920s.
- A poster from the 1925 county fair.
