Creating Research Questions?!

Now that you have developed a general understanding of your topic, the next step is to generate questions to guide you through the rest of your research. These questions will help further your understanding and narrow down your research topic.  They should not be simple yes or no questions. They should be open ended and debatable.

Ask questions a historian would ask.  These questions might include those about your topic's time and place, cause and effect, change over time, and impact. You will also need to consider not only when events happened but why?  Although I am sure you have lots of questions about your topic, here's a good place to start.

• When did my topic occur in history? What dates are important?
• Where did the major events related to my topic occur? 
• Why is the setting (time and place) important?
• What was happening in history at the time/place of the person/event I’m researching?
• What events influenced my topic? 
• Who influenced my topic?
• What effect did my leader have at the time? On whom? 
• What effect/impact does my leader have today? 
• How did my topic change history?

Video clips about research questions:

YouTube Clip: Research Questions

YouTube Clip: Research Questions

For your blog post today 3/6/15, develop research questions of your own and write about them on your blog.  You may use the questions above, but you should connect them to your topic and also create several of your own.   

Then, respond to three of your classmates blogs by suggesting additional research questions they might want to consider.