The teacher sets the enquiry question 'How useful is this source to a historian studying attitudes to volunteering in Britain in 1914 to 1915?' and shows the poster 'Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?' with the printed line naming its publisher cropped off. Students rate its usefulness on a five-point Mentimeter scale and note one reason, based on content alone, in their books. The teacher then reveals the provenance (published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in 1915 to encourage men to enlist) and students rate again on a second, identical slide, with the teacher flicking between the two results. The teacher asks the students whose rating moved furthest to explain, and uses the comparison to show that provenance changes how a source is useful without making it useless.
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