Using Images to support learning

Using Images to Support Learning

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Images can be effective tools for engaging students while teaching social studies. Old photographs and artwork turn your classroom into a history lab by offering students a glimpse into the past, and an image from which to think about daily life, culture, and change through time.
https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/teaching-strategies/analyzing-visual-images-stere

In this approach students make observations first and then inferences. In this way they have evidence to support their interpretations.


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See how you can address the content through an inquiry approach using images.
http://sourcedocs.tc2.ca/picture-sets/strategies-for-investigating-pictures.html

This resource contains nine featured activities for using photographs, drawings and paintings as information sources. Four of the activities, highlighted below, are included with a subscription to the Source Docs collection. The complete set is available for purchase.
http://tc2.ca/teaching-resources/print-publications/investigating-sources.php

Investigating Sources consists of two collections of online and print resources to help students learn to make effective use of pictures and realistic fiction as sources of information:
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