ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
New to inquiry, or writing your own historical questions? Use this chart as a guide for crafting historical questions that engage young learners in thinking critically about the past!
SECONDARY TEACHERS
New to inquiry, or writing your own historical questions? Use this chart as a guide for crafting historical questions that engage middle and high school students in thinking critically about the past!
STUDENTS
Students embarking on a research project can use this worksheet to help them to formulate the historical inquiry question they will go on to investigate and answer. Sentence frames show them what effective, focused historical questions look like.
Google Slides
Use this Google slidedeck to model for students how to find evidence to answer inquiry questions, and to analyze primary sources together as a class. As students grow comfortable with the format, they will be ready to use the Mining the Source worksheets independently and in pairs or small groups
Analyzing a Single Source
This worksheet helps students to analyze any primary source for evidence that will help them to answer an inquiry question for a source set on the History Source or any assigned source set, lesson, unit, or research project.
Analyzing Multiple Sources
With space for multiple primary sources, this worksheet helps students to analyze up to 3 primary sources for evidence that help them to answer an inquiry question for a source set on the History Source or any assigned source set, lesson, unit, or research project.
