Map Scale and Source Skills

Grade 4 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle primary source or secondary source.

1. 1.

   A chart in a book that sums up how many settlers came by wagon.

   • a secondary source
   • a primary source
2. 2.

   A museum website article about ancient Egypt.

   • a secondary source
   • a primary source
3. 3.

   A letter a soldier mailed home in 1944.

   • a primary source
   • a secondary source
4. 4.

   A diary entry a soldier wrote the night before a battle.

   • a secondary source
   • a primary source
5. 5.

   A lesson plan about explorers.

   • a primary source
   • a secondary source
6. 6.

   A poster from the 1925 county fair.

   • a secondary source
   • a primary source
7. 7.

   A town's meeting notes written during the meeting.

   • a secondary source
   • a primary source
8. 8.

   A paragraph in a library book about how the pyramids were built.

   • a primary source
   • a secondary source