This study begins by problematizing the description method of history textbooks that presents its content as absolute, undebatable facts, preventing learners from engaging in critical thinking. This research intends to analyze how changes in history text description methods have affected the types of questions raised by learners. For the participants, 24 fifth grade students were selected from Elementary School A located in Seoul where the researcher working as a homeroom teacher. The experimental group learned the text developed by this researcher, and the comparative group was provided with the existing textbook. Then, both groups were asked to write questions about the content they were curious about. The researcher and one other coder classified the questions into types based on Kim, H.’s definition of ‘I know history.’ When the coder and this researcher had different opinions about the question types, they engaged in further discussion until they reached an collective decision. According to the results, history text description methods influence the types of questions raised by learners and ‘the method of adding voice to the text’ allows learners to understand the contents more easily. Also, it has been found that when readers have a different opinion from the author’s viewpoint that is explicitly shown in description, they tend to engage in critical thinking. This study is meaningful in that it has verified experimentally whether text description methods influence learners’ questions. In the field of history education, it is necessary to conduct research on learners’ questions more actively and also conduct further studies on the hierarchy of these questions.