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First Steps. What is the first instruction you give to students in doing historical research?. Questions and Thesis Statements. Why Research Questions?. Purpose Relationship withd thesis statements. Questions and Thesis Statements. Thinking Like a Historian, Wisconsin Historical Society.
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First Steps What is the first instruction you give to students in doing historical research?
Why Research Questions? • Purpose • Relationship withd thesis statements
Research questions • Good questions allow you to: • Go beyond the facts • Investigate issues of cause and effect • Examine change over time • Determine how past actions or decision affect future choices • Discuss impact in history