Overview Primary and Secondary Sources▪ Identification▪ Student Engagement▪ Curriculum Alignment
Digital Collections▪ Classroom resource▪ Critical thinking skills
Teaching with Photographs
Objects Images Audio Statistics Text
Active Experience
Manipulating real historical materials
Critical Thinking Skills▪ Multiple perspectives▪ Forming
interpretations
Identify your instructional needs
North Carolina Standard Course of Study http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/ Rewrite your lesson or activity outcome
to include your primary source material.
African American men being drafted
NCSCOSGRADE 8 NC HISTORY
Competency Goal 6- The learner will analyze the immediate and long-term effects of the Great Depression and World War II on North Carolina. Objectives 6.04 Assess the impact of
World War II on the economic, political, social, and military roles of different groups in North Carolina including women and minorities.
PRIMARY SOURCE AND CONTEXT EXAMPLE
Photograph URL: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/3910 (African American men being drafted)
Conscription in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War
Online database
Treasure Chest Digital versions High quality materials Online access Preservation of rare materials
Examples ECU digital collections
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/ Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
Engagement of Students Reflection Articulation Problem-solving Exploration Hypothesis
generation Role playing Collaboration and
Social Negotiation
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams
The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.
Based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading.
What’s in the picture? Context Answer: who, what,
where, and when?
The photographer’s decision Composition Moment in Time Setting Focal Point
The viewer decides Implicit v. explicit
context
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
-Ansel Adams
All images from the Daily Reflector Image Collection http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/reflector/
Ansel Adams quotes from http://www.brainyquote.com
LearnNC: Resources for teaching with photographs http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/678
Wikipedia Search: conscription http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War