Sorting Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Wikipedia: Research Unit 2, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Sorting Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Wikipedia is Unit 2 of Practical Arts and Research Literacy (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Research course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 55 pages.

• The primary/secondary/tertiary source classification scheme
• The relationship between research question and source category
• Source-category justification under a novel question
• Wikipedia’s talk page and edit history as evidence of an editing process
• The citation trail from a Wikipedia claim to its source
• The rule against citing tertiary sources directly
• Trustworthiness-for-purpose of primary versus secondary accounts
• A generalized procedure for citation-trail verification

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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