Seeing is Believing

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Seeing is Believing

• Pam Merrill
• Edmond Public Schools

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The histories are written by the big bugs,
they tell of great victories of great
men, And when they die, long
obituaries tell of their many virtues
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But we were just the ordinary people, and we did
it !
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• Traditionally, history is taught as the retelling
  of events
• Instead, why not reverse the
• usual process
• rather than teaching students
• to be consumers of stories...

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• Assist students to become
• Social Scientists
• Involved in questioning
• analyzing
• imagining

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• Our classes, then, become a setting where
  students work as scientists of history,
  geography, government
• conducting ongoing investigations about the
  past and present

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Art and Photography as Primary Sources for
Investigations
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• Every artwork is biased in some way

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• But even biased sources give us important insight
  about the present and the past.

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Tips and StrategiesArt and Photos for
Classroom Use

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How to Select?

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Tell a story?
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Describe events?
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Offer insight?
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Challenge a stereotype?
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Promote empathy?
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Strategies for Analyzing
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Investigations for Classifications Bucket
ArtToast or Roast?(What Works? Concerns or
Questions?) Fives Themes of Geography In a
Nutshell M Ms KWL for Visuals PIE
Speculation or Evidence? SOAPS for Political
Cartoons Sneak Peek
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Five Themes of Geography Guide to Art Analysis
George Catlin
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In A Nutshell
Dorothea Lange, photographer
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M Ms
American Progress,John Gast
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KWL for Visuals
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PIE
Bierstadt, Oregon Trail
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Speculation or Evidence?
Russell Lee, photography, 1939
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SOAPS for Political Cartoons
Herb Block, cartoonist, 1965
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Sneak Peeks
Battle of Bunkers Hill, John Trumbull
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Sneak Peeks
Battle of Bunkers Hill, John Trumbull
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Additional Strategies and Project Ideas
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Putting Myself in the PictureInteractive
Role-Playing Using Poses of Individuals in
Artwork (or Photographs)
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Poem for Two VoicesDialogue created between
opposing viewpoints portrayed in artwork.
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The Carousel with Test Myself Questionnaire
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Museum CuratorResearch-based project
culminating in virtual or classroom-displayed
mini-museums.
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Seeing is Believing

• Pam Merrill
• Edmond Public Schools
• www.edmondschools.net