Carry out an inquiry of an historical event or place that is of significance to New Zealanders
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You need to carry out a proper historical inquiry into a significant New Zealand event or place, from start to finish. This means picking a topic, asking focused questions, finding and annotating evidence, organising your sources, and then evaluating how well your inquiry process worked. The topic must matter to New Zealanders—it could be something that happened here, an international event that involved or affected NZ, and it needs to be relevant to your life today.
You carry out a basic inquiry with some annotations on evidence, organise your sources, and identify straightforward strengths and weaknesses in what you found.
You carry out an in-depth inquiry with detailed annotations that show clear links to your questions, and you provide a coherent (well-reasoned) evaluation that explains the reliability issues and process challenges you faced.
You carry out a comprehensive inquiry with perceptive (insightful) annotations showing careful analysis of evidence, and you give a perceptive evaluation that demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how evidence reliability and inquiry process issues affected your findings.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.