Question

A fourth-grade teacher is preparing a lesson on reading historical maps. Which of the following questions requires students to use higher-level

thinking?
What time period does this map cover?
How far is the river from the coastline?
Which symbol in the key indicates a railroad?
Why did people build the cities where they did?

Answer 1

answer: why did people build the cities where they did


reason: the other 3 answers are specific, and can be easily identified. for the last question, the student would have to think about what the landscape and climate is like in order to answer correctly