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Primary Source Excersice Lesson Draft

   One idea I have considered when teaching children primary sources is allowing them to see firsthand the differences between the accuracy of primary and secondary sources. This would begin by having students create sources of information themselves and transferring the information between each other.
   To begin, I would have students pair up with a friend. The prompt would be to recall an event that happened at school (e.g. field trip or school festival) and what they did during the course of the event. I would have the students journal their experience first by either writing or drawing their memory of the event. They would then tell their partner about their experiences orally. The partner would then  have to journal what they heard and attempt to create the most accurate secondary source possible. Finally, the students would compare and contrast the primary and secondary sources with the goal to discover how accurate secondary sources are in comparison to first person perspectives. I would hope that would help students to understand that looking for primary sources will help to reach more accurate accounts of what happened in history.

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