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Support a conclusion

EnglishGrade 2HistoryFree

Choose a supported claim and ask for the evidence still missing

What it is about

Choose a claim justified by supplied evidence and identify the missing detail or further source needed to strengthen it.

Grade 2 · 7–8 years · 30 challenges

Before you begin

  • Grade1 chronology, change/continuity and source vs guess.

What the class will do

  1. Choose and explain · 10 challenges

    Make a bounded claim

    All records are fictional practice. Choose the claim supported by the actual record, keeping its limits visible.

  2. Match pairs · 10 challenges

    Ask the next evidence question

    Connect each specific claim or evidence gap to the question that would investigate it. Questions do not guarantee an answer exists.

  3. Choose and explain · 10 challenges

    Revise with new evidence

    Read the old claim and the new record. Choose a qualified revision or next step rather than forcing the old claim to fit.

Using it in class

All records, quotations and dates are original fiction for source practice, not real historical evidence. Everyone cites a visible detail before a representative acts. Read-aloud is optional. Estimate 35–45 minutes with brief discussion; use a short round or continue reflection later.

Give everyone time to think and discuss before one pupil acts at the board. The class explains and confirms together; hints and explanations stay until you move on.

Use an up-to-date browser on a computer connected to a whiteboard or shared display. Touch, mouse and keyboard; optional audio and reduced motion. No pupil accounts or personal devices.

Choose from 5 challenges up to the full activity. Discussion determines the duration: you set the pace.

A look inside the activities

Choose and explain

Fictional practice: A 1940 garden list names one oak and one maple. Which claim is supported?

  • Only two trees existed in the town.
  • The oak was older than the maple.
  • The list names two kinds of tree.
Explanation and discussion

The list names an oak and a maple, two kinds. It gives no complete town tree count or tree ages, so those broader claims need other evidence.

What would you ask before calling the list complete?

Match pairs

Fictional practice: A note records a shop moving rooms and buying a cart, but gives no month, cart color or customer views. Match the gaps.

  • Claim: the move was in May.
  • Claim: the cart was red.
  • Claim: customers approved.

Match with:

  • What color was the cart?
  • What did customers say about the move?
  • When did the shop move?
Explanation and discussion

May, red and customer approval are three separate additions. Their matching questions investigate time, appearance and views without pretending the note already supplies them.

Which claim could be tested with a dated photograph, and what limit would remain?

Choose and explain

Fictional practice: Old claim: hall opened in 1932. New record: trial opening in 1930, permanent opening in 1932. Which revision fits?

  • The records describe two stages of opening.
  • The 1930 record must concern another town.
  • The hall had no opening in 1932.
Explanation and discussion

The evidence distinguishes a trial and a permanent opening. A more precise claim can retain both dates rather than treating the words opened as one identical event.

Why can defining an event resolve an apparent date conflict?

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