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Crafting Historical Inquiry Questions
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Crafting Historical Inquiry Questions
📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice (Identify and evaluate)
1. Which of these is a weak historical inquiry question about Māori in WWI?
Did Māori fight in WWI?
How did Māori soldiers' wartime experiences affect iwi and community life after 1918?
To what extent did service in WWI change leadership roles within Māori communities?
How did Māori soldiers' experiences in WWI differ from those of Pākehā soldiers?
2. Which feature most improves a historical inquiry question?
It can be answered with "yes" or "no".
It is open-ended, focused in time/place, and invites evidence-based explanation.
It asks for a short list of facts only.
It relies on a single secondary source.
3. Check all question stems that encourage deeper inquiry and analysis.
To what extent...
Did Māori support WWI?
How and why did...
What were the impacts of...
4. Which revision would best strengthen this question: "How did Māori contribute to WWI?"
Add a time/place or specify types of contribution (e.g. military, economic, political).
Change it to a yes/no question.
Make it broader by removing "Māori".
Limit it to a single soldier's experience only.
✏️ Part 2: Short Answers (Practice and plan)
5. Rewrite this weak question into a stronger inquiry question: "Did Māori support WWI?"
6. Craft your own focused inquiry question about Māori participation in WWI. Use a stem like "To what extent...", "How and why did...", or "What were the impacts of...".
7. List three types of primary sources you would seek to answer the question you wrote in Q6. Be specific (e.g. letters, tribal meeting minutes, Battalion records).
8. Homework (brief): Choose one group question and, in 4–6 sentences, explain why it is strong and which sources you would use to investigate it.
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