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Grades 1 and 2 - History - Elementary School - Asking Questions
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As elementary school children develop their understanding of what history means, they start asking logical questions, the answers to which will further their understanding of a particular area or topic. They may also understand how the past can be represented in many different ways, such as documents, paintings or artifacts, and this may help to aim their questioning in a sensible direction.

Grades 1 and 2 - History - Elementary School - Asking Questions
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1. Imagine you find, in your attic, a very old photograph of a lady. What sort of question might you ask about it?
2. Which of the following is not a sensible history question?
3. Which of the following would mean you probably would not go down in the history books?
4. The Great Fire of London began in a baker's shop in 1666. Which question would not help you find out more about this event?
5. When we read an account of an event from history, what's the most important question to ask?
6. How do historians find out more about artifacts from the past?
7. If you time-travelled back to Victorian England and met a child your age, which question would you ask to find out more about life at the time?
8. If you met someone who had painted a portrait of a famous person from history, which of the following would be a sensible question to ask?
9. If you saw an ancient vase in a museum, which questions wouldn't help you learn more about it?
10. When historians and archeologists find ancient jewelry, what question would they probably not ask?