Images Draw You In Introduction Model Activity

Charleston

National Photo Co. "The Charleston as an aid to the game." Created between 1920 and 1932. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

New discoveries confirm, challenge, and sometimes change our thinking.

Investigative Question Investigative Question

How do primary sources challenge and inspire our memory, reason and imagination?

Overview

Images Draw You In builds a differentiated introduction or warm-up to draw students into a topic through an Investigative Question that results in a discussion connected to an Understanding .

Performance Tasks

  • Choose an image that evokes a personal connection, relates to curriculum or inspires questions.
  • Choose or write a question that draws students into a discussion about the subject of the picture.

Best Instructional Practices

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction is action in the classroom designed to effectively meet specific needs of diverse learners.

Content

  • Provide students with multiple images that connect more concretely or abstractly to the topic.
  • Provide students with images that require various levels of vocabulary in a discussion.
  • Relate content to an Understanding Goal so broad that the goal often relates to several subjects.

Learning Process

  • Assign or let students choose from varied questions by using Bloom's Taxonomy and learning styles.
  • Relate investigation question explicitly to an Understanding Goal.

Student Product

  • Provide students options to express their response: acting, discussing, drawing, or writing.
  • Use student grouping strategies such as: individual, partner, small group, or whole class

Teaching for Understanding

Teaching for Understanding challenges students to connect learning to large scale themes that are central to the discipline being studied while enabling students to apply what they have learned outside of the original discipline or subject.

  • Articulate a connection between responses to differentiated, investigative questions and an idea central to the subject under study.

Handouts Required for Model Activity

The following materials are required to complete this Model Activity:

  • Copies Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Copies of Sample Questions
  • Example Introduction with Differentiated Process
  • Example Introduction with Differentiated Content
  • Example Introduction with Differentiated Product