Rancho Buena Vista High School
Ninth Grade Social Studies Project
BECOMING A STUDENT RESEARCHER

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dO i nEED  tO uSE pRIMARY oR sECONDARY sOURCES?

• Primary Sources include:
     ------Firsthand Accounts, such as
    eyewitness letters,   diaries, autobiographies
           accounts

       ------Original Research, such as

observations, questionnaires   personal
                                               or interviews,              experiences

------Original Creations, such as

paintings, poems, songs

    So what's a secondary source?