1. Inquiry
DANIELLE CANNON
JOEL HOFFMAN
MICHELLE NEUDER
KATIE OVERFIELD
CAITLIN SHANAHAN
COLLEEN SHERIDAN

2. Definitions of Inquiry
 The scientific method, problem-solving, critical
thinking
 Historical thinking or historical interpretation
 When students are engaged in inquiry often, their
inquiry skills improve greatly (Parker, 2004, p. 324)
 “Children who have developed their inquiry abilities
are able to draw conclusions based on evidence and
draw conclusions based on the evidence and judge
whether conclusions drawn by others are supported
by evidence.” (Parker, 2004, p. 324)

3. Advantages of Inquiry
 allowing students to tap into and develop their
higher order thinking skills
 Students do this by proceeding through scientific method:
hypothesizing, finding evidence, coming to conclusions, and
testing the strength of
their conclusions.
 By working with these steps repeatedly and
often, students obtain the building blocks for
problem solving

4. Disadvantages of Inquiry
 A disadvantage of using inquiry based learning can
be when teachers leave students solely to their own
devices.
 Many experts refer to inquiry based learning as a
student centered teaching strategy. However, the
strategy can become ineffective when sufficient
teacher involvement is not present.
 Inquiry based learning requires a balance of student
and teacher involvement (Brophy &
Alleman, 2007, p. 225).

5. Teachers and Inquiry
 Teachers can ask questions during the inquiry such
as, “How do you know that’s true?” and “Do
your sources agree?” (Parker, 2003, p. 324) to
spur further thinking. Eventually, students will begin
to ask themselves these questions without teacher
support as their inquiry skills improve.

6. Genocide
 Definitions-
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a
national, racial, political or cultural group
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on
the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group

7. Examples of Genocide
 Conquest of the Desert in Argentina
 Armenian Genocide
 Greek Genocide
 Rwandan Genocide
*Thousands of people were killed in each of these
instances of genocide

8. The Holocaust
 Holocaust

9. Why?
 The Holocaust is just one example of Genocide
 What are some of the reasons why a Genocide such
as the Holocaust, or other examples of Genocide
would occur?