GENERATE EFFECTIVE HISTORICAL INQUIRY QUESTIONS: WWI

Topic: Canadian History, WWI

Historical Thinking Skills: Questioning

Time Period: 1914-1918

Historians ask good questions about what happened in the past. The best kind of questions, the most interesting, engaging, and useful, are those that ask us to make a judgment when we answer them.

In this assessment, students are provided with a collection of questions and must identify which questions are focused on factual-recall and which are effective inquiry questions, requiring the use of evidence and judgment.