2. Why a focus on enquiries?
• The wording of an enquiry frames the learning for
a number of lessons – moving away from the
‘tyranny of the lesson’
• The strongest are those based on a clear second
order concept
• This is NOT about ‘skills’ but about knitting
together learning
• Allows for constant revisiting of knowledge and
addition of new knowledge – this means more
demanding content can be absorbed
3. How would you formulate an enquiry
question for each of these concepts
using the content proposed?
• Cause and Consequence
• Similarity and Diversity
• Change and Continuity
• Historical Significance
• Evidence
• Interpretations
4. Do some planning for a year group
• Worksheet – how might you begin to break up
this curriculum?
• Make it relevant to your students?
• Continue to focus on conceptually driven
enquiries?
– Cause and Consequence, Similarity and Diversity,
Change and Continuity, Historical Significance,
Evidence, Interpretations
5. Some ideas to play with...
• ‘Why do opinions of Victoria’s Empire keep changing?’ -
Interpretations
• ‘Who wanted to make Victorian children go to school?’ – Similarity
and Difference
• ‘Why is it hard to decide whether Edwardian Britain was a Golden
Age?’ -Evidence
• ‘Who fought on the Western Front?’ - Similarity and Difference
• Why do we still remember the Peace talks of 1919? - Significance
• ‘What generalisations about the Holocaust can we make?’-
Similarity and Difference
• ‘What kind of change did fighting a Cold War bring?’ – Change and
Continuty
6. Interpretations
• Should we be proud of the British Empire?
• Why do opinions of Victoria’s Empire keep
changing?
7. Similarity and Difference
• Who fought on the Western Front?
• How different were the attitudes of the rulers
and the ruled in the British Empire?
8. Causes and Consequences
• Why was universal suffrage introduced?
• Why did Britain’s role in the world change
after the Second World War?
9. Change and Continuity
• Which reform has done the most to change
life in Britain in the 20th century?
• How close was Britain to revolution between
1789 and 1832?
10. Significance
• Why do we still remember the Peace talks of
1919?
• How should Winston Churchill be
remembered?
11. Evidence
• Why is it hard to decide whether Edwardian
Britain was a Golden Age?
• What can the Great Exhibition of 1851 tell us
about Victorian Britain?
