Inquiry Process
This type of open-ended question, such as 'Why?', helps guide a deep social studies investigation.
What is Critical thinking question
A firsthand account or document, such as a direct quote from a coffee farmer or a historic treaty, is this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This global environmental issue involves clearing large areas of the Amazon rainforest, damaging habitats and biodiversity.
What is deforestation?
This term refers to the point of view or lens through which an individual or group interprets events, shaped by beliefs and needs.
What is perspective?
Everyday decisions, like checking where clothes are made or buying 'Fairtrade Certified' products, to satisfy their needs
What are consumer choices?
This is the very first step of the social studies inquiry process, where research teams design questions to guide their work.
What is formulating questions?
When analyzing any source, historians must look out for this: a strong, one-sided opinion or prejudice that might prevent the author from being objective.
What is bias?
in 2023, Statiscs Canadareported that women in Canada earn approximately 88 cents for every dollar earned by men, highlighting the persistent economic disparity
What is gender wage gap (or gender inequality)
If a town plans to build a new highway, this specific stakeholder group would support it because it brings more customers to their shops.
Who are local business owners? (Accept: merchants/shopkeepers)
Canadian municipal, provincial, and federal laws often change to reflect these demands from everyday shoppers.
What are consumer demands?
This is the final stage of the inquiry process where students evaluate actions and make an evidence-based judgment about Canada's role.
What is drawing a conclusion?
When written records are unavailable, historians rely on this two-word term for the physical objects, architecture, and modified landscapes left behind by past cultures.
What is material culture? (Accept: Artifacts / Archaeology)
When young minors are forced to work long hours in unsafe conditions.
What is child labour?
In a debate over rainforest logging, this type of stakeholder advocates for conserving biodiversity and protecting habitats.
Who is an environmental activist?
This term describes how countries rely on one another for goods and services
What is global interdependence (or globalization)?
This term describes a complete learning sequence involving formulating questions, gathering evidence, analyzing perspectives, and drawing conclusions.
What is the inquiry process?
This critical thinking process requires historians to compare details across multiple primary and secondary sources to check for agreement, discrepancy, and reliability before drawing a conclusion.
What is corroboration? (Accept: Cross-referencing)
This is an equitable way is designed to ensure producers in developing countries receive fair payment and work under safe conditions.
What is fair trade?
A person's perspective is heavily shaped by this, which is the shared beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors of their community or group.
What is culture?
When Canada wants to makes changes to a system, law, or behavior to improve it and remove faults, errors, or injustices
What is reform (or improvement)?
This type of basic, factual question has a simple, one-word or short answer (e.g., 'Where is this forest?').
What is a thin question?
This term refers to the study of how history is written, focusing on how different historians have interpreted the same sources of evidence over time.
What is historiography?
This specific agricultural crop is a primary example used to study fair trade certification and ethical farming networks.
What is coffee?
This term refers to any individual who takes direct action, campaigns, or protest to protect the natural world from pollutio, destruction, and climate change
what is an environmental activist?
This model seeks to balance Canada's economic trade interests with the long-term protection of global ecosystems.
What is sustainable development?