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📅 AI Monthly — February 2027
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Monthly · February 2027 · S1⏱ 25 min · 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent present

📜 Primary Sources

Learn to tell the difference between primary and secondary sources.

🎯 Today's goal: Your child learns one of the most fundamental research skills: going back to the original source.

🔥 Warm Up

Warm Up

If you wanted to know exactly what someone famous said — not what someone else said they said — where would you look?

"That difference is the difference between a primary source and a secondary one. It is more important than it sounds."

🤖 The Activity

Main Activity
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What is the difference between a primary source and a secondary source? Give me 3 examples of each for the same historical event. Explain why primary sources are more reliable for some questions — but sometimes more limited than secondary sources.
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Find me the primary source for this well-known historical quote or claim: [child picks a famous quote or fact they know]. What is the actual source? How do we know it is genuine?
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What is a tertiary source? Where does AI itself sit in this hierarchy — primary, secondary, or tertiary? Why?

🧩 The Twist

Go Deeper
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Has a famous historical quote ever turned out to be misattributed — something widely believed to have been said by one person but actually said by someone else? What does this tell us about how history gets passed down?

Fact-check this. Misattributed quotes are extremely common.

🛡️ Safety Moment
“AI makes mistakes — always check”

AI is a tertiary source at best — it summarises what others have written, which summarises what others wrote, which may or may not have gone back to primary sources. For any historical claim that matters, trace it to a primary source.

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Source Analyst Badge 📜

Understood the primary/secondary/tertiary source hierarchy — and where AI fits in it

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Parent Notes

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What they learned

Source literacy — the foundation of all good research.

Questions to ask
  • What is the difference between a primary and secondary source?
  • Where does AI sit in the source hierarchy?
  • What famous quote turned out to be misattributed?
What to watch for

Source literacy is one of the most valuable skills from the monthly programme.

Safety in context

February is a strong month for older children (12-13) in the Builder programme.

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