Norman Wales: structuring your answer to the historic environment question
I can understand ways to approach the 16-mark historic environment question.
Norman Wales: structuring your answer to the historic environment question
I can understand ways to approach the 16-mark historic environment question.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The question will ask about either change, continuity, cause or consequence.
- Arguments about change, continuity, cause or consequence should be backed up with relevant evidence.
- The question will provide one factor to consider, to which you should add two more alternatives.
- Planning your answer helps to achieve a sustained judgement.
- It is always important to use specific knowledge about your historic environment in your answer.
Keywords
Second order concepts - ways in which questions about history are shaped
Continuity - when something continues without changing
Causation - why something happens, what its causes are
Consequence - the results or impacts of something
Common misconception
Students commonly do not provide enough detail from their historic environment in their answers.
Try to back up your analysis of the question with specific facts and details from your historic environment.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
ways in which questions about history are shaped
when something continues without changing
why something happens, what its causes are
the results or impacts of something