Compelling Question: Why should I be responsible with Michigan's natural resources?
Supporting Questions:
1) What are Michigan's natural resources?
2) What causes resources to be scarce?
3) How can I be responsible with resources?
Compelling Question: Did Trade Make Life Better for Indigenous People?
Supporting Questions:
1. Why did Indigenous People want to trade?
2. Why did the Europeans want to trade?
3. How did trade lead to conflict?
Compelling Question: Why did it take so long for Michigan to Become a State?
Supporting Questions:
1. What challenges did Michigan pioneers face.
2. Why did more pioneers begin to settle in Michigan
3. What did Michigan still need to do to become a state.
Compelling Question: What was the impact of interactions
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
peoples in what became Michigan?
Supporting Questions:w
1. What was the impact of the fur trade on what became Michigan?
2. What was the impact of the French and Indian War on what became
Michigan?
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Compelling Question: What is the fairest resolution to the Line 5 pipeline issue?
Supporting Questions:
1. What is the history of the Line 5 pipeline, and what is happening now?
2. What are the different viewpoints about the Line 5 pipeline, and what
democratic values would someone with that viewpoint use to argue their
point?
3. Who is helped and who is harmed by different resolutions?
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Compelling Question: What should Michigan be known for: "The Motor City" or something else?
Supporting Questions:
1. How has the automobile industry changed from the time Michigan became
home to “the Motor City” until now?
2. Are there other parts of Michigan’s history, culture, or economy that define
Michigan more than the automobile industry?
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Compelling Question: How should we tell the stories of slavery and freedom in Detroit through historical markers?
Supporting Questions:
1. How have we told the story of freedom from enslavement in Detroit?
2. What are the “skeletons in the closet” about slavery in Detroit?
3. How can historical markers tell the story of freedom and slavery in Detroit?
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