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SOLO Group Inquiry Task - "What Causes World War One?"

 
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SOLO Group Inquiry Task - "What Causes World War One?"
by Mark Callagher - Saturday, 14 June 2014, 2:23 PM
 

A collaborative tool like Lucidchart enables students to easily research and share their creative ideas together, either at school, or online wle at home.

At the start of ts year, for their 20th Century History topic, one class of Year 10 students were given the task to: Create and present to your class a diagram answering the question: “What Caused World War One?”

Groups were given resources such as a video to watch but from there it was left entirely up to them. Given a simple, accessible and reliable tool in Lucidchart, students were able to develop their inquiry, research and collaborative skills and even show some artistic flair.

Here is the SOLO assessment marking schedule

Student groups were named after World War II leaders for the duration of the topic.

Team Zhukov - Causes of WWI:
mind mapping software

Other Groups work shown here:

Team Montgomery - Causes of WWI

Team Freyberg - Causes of WWI