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Thinking History
IAN DAWSON
Remembering the Enquiry Process
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Do you remember when we did an …ENQUIRY?ENQUIRY?
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How did you start?
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Stage 1
FirstEvidence
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Stage 2
Asking questions
????????WHOWHO … … are they?
HOWHOW … … did they die?
??
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Stage 3
Suggesting your first hypothesis Families?
Soldiers?
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How certain were you about your hypothesis?
UNCERTAIN?
CERTAIN?
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How certain were you about your hypothesis?What words did you use?
MaybeNot
surePossibly
Perhaps
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Stage 4
Testing your hypothesis with more evidence
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Stage 5
Revising your hypothesis
Soldiers from the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
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Stage 5
Revising your hypothesisUNCERTAIN
CERTAIN
Were you more
certain?
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Re-running Stage 4
Re-testing against more evidence
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Re-running Stage 5
Final Hypothesis
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And the words you used?
I’m fairly sure …They were probably …I’m certain …
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Conclusion
Do you remember when
we identified …the enquiry process?the enquiry process?
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The Enquiry ProcessFirst
EvidenceQuestions
HypothesisMore
Evidence
RevisedHypothesis
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Why does the Enquiry Process help you do better in history?
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to Dr. Claire Smith and the students of Leeds Trinity PGCE course
To Hodder Education
And to the unknown Viking in York