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History Question Charts Helena
History Question Charts Helena
Materials
4 charts in successive heights with questions listed in columns:
Each chart includes a blank spot for children to insert their own questions.
Questions on the History Question Charts: 1. What was the Nature of the Country? (Green) 1.1. What was the terrain like? 1.2. What type of climate was there? 1.3. What kinds of flora and fauna were there? 1.4. How and why did people come to live there? 1.5. blank 2. What was the Relationship Within and Between Groups?( Brown) 2.1. How did this group interact with other groups? 2.2. Did they trade among themselves? With others? Did they barter? 2.3. How did they posses money, goods & property? Individually or in common? Was their poverty? 2.4. Did they engage in wars or conquests? Did they have slaves? 2.5. What was the social structure of the group? What were their living arrangements? 2.6. What were marriages or family life like? What kinds of kinship and friendship mattered? 2.7. How did they govern themselves? 2.8. Did these people travel, explore or migrate? 2.9. What care did they give their children? 2.10. blank 3. What was the Spiritual and Intellectual Culture? (Yellow) 3.1. What was their spoken or written language like? Their stories and literature? 3.2. What number system did they use? 3.3. What was their art and music like? 3.4. What sciences interested them? 3.5. How did they educate their children? 3.6. What were their ideas of life or death? 3.7. What were their beliefs? Did they have gods or goddesses? 3.8. What was their concept of justice? How were laws enforced? 3.9. What were their holidays, rituals and ceremonies? 3.10. blank 4. What were the Human Activities? (Blue) 4.1. What types of work and occupation did they have? What tools or techniques did they use? 4.2. How did they meet their needs for clothing and shelter? 4.3. How did they get their food? Did they have agriculture? What did they produce? 4.4. How did they make use of nature? 4.5. blank
To guide the adult in research and preparation of history stories to be given to the children.
Purpose: Introduce the children to the History Question Charts. Materials: Charts, Prepared story using 1 or more of the history question charts. Presentation:
I am going to use this material with my story. These are called the History Question Charts. They have many questions on them. My story doesn't have the answers to all these questions but we will find some of the answers in the story I am going to tell. My story is called insert title of story. At the end of the story: Here is one of our history question charts. Let's read the questions and see if my story answered any of these questions. Read questions and elicit responses from the children. Write the answers on index cards. Summarize the story based on the cards you wrote. These charts are very important to create and understand history stories. Maybe you want to ask and answer another story about the x people or use the charts to tell a story about a different person.
Extensions: 1) Using the charts to take notes. Lets write a few facts to help us tell the story. 2) Introducing the idea of comparing cultures. Take 1 question and 2 cultures. Prepare 2 very brief stories that address that one question. Tell your 1st story, read the question, write out the answers on a card. Tell your 2nd story, read the question, write out the answers on a card. Compare, contrast and discuss the cards. 3) Use prepared cards but keep in mind the limitation of materials principle. There is another material in our room that will help you. Each of these cards answers a question on a chart. Instead of telling a story, you can take out these cards and find the questions that the card answers. This extension makes it possible to cover required material on a public school curriculum.
Facilitating Children's Own Study Purpose: Independent research using the History Question Charts. Materials: 1 or more of the history question charts depending on the topic of research. Presentation:
It's important to do this work after the child has done some independent research. You can even suggest a day or two in advance that they: Collect up all the books you have been looking at that are about x topic. Let's choose one of these charts and use the books that you have collected to answer the questions on this chart (or these charts). What was the Nature of Their Country? What were the relationships within & between groups? What was the spiritual & intellectual culture? What were the human activities?
How are you going to answer that? Where in the book did you read about that? Can you read that out loud? Did anybody else find something in a different book about this topic? Come back and help them make the translation into a report, booklet or timeline. How do you want to show what you know? What do you want to do with this information? How do you want to share this? What are you going to do next? UL Extensions: Develop other research techniques such as recording the source, etc.