Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

SOCC Visual Image Analysis

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

3, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

This graphic organizer provides a structured method for students to analyze primary source visual image documents. By using this graphic organizer and the included guiding questions, students will analyze the source of the image, make observations about the image, contextualize the image within historical events, and corroborate the information they learn by identifying other sources of information. 

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 3

    SS10.3.11

    Interpret various primary sources for reconstructing the past, including documents, letters, diaries, maps, and photographs.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.3.11

    Vocabulary

    • interpret
    • legends
    • stories
    • songs
    • contributed
    • development
    • cultural history
    • tall tales
    • folk heroes

    Knowledge

    Students know:

    • The purpose and essential elements of legends, stories, and songs.
    • Examples of legends, stories, and songs that contributed to United States' cultural history including American Indian Legends, African American Stories, Tall Tales and stories of Folk Heroes.
    • Vocabulary: legends, stories, songs, cultural history.

    Skills

    Students are able to:

    • Interpret legends, stories, and songs.
    • Identify the purpose and essential elements of legends, stories, and songs.
    • Identify the contribution that specific legends, stories, and songs had on the development of cultural history of the United States.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:

    • There are legends, stories, and songs that have contributed to the development of the cultural history of the United States.
    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

    SS10.CWI.6

    Compare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.CWI.6

    Vocabulary

    • media bias
    • analyze
    • criticism
    • viewpoints
    • perspective
    • political carton
    • symbolism
    • flawed sampling
    • editorial

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • A variety of techniques for analyzing media outlets including television, internet, magazines, newspapers, and journals.
    • A variety of techniques for analyzing the meaning, sources, viewpoints, bias, and sampling involved in media.
    • Media is biased.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Analyze and compare information from various media sources.
    • Support analysis with evidence from various sources.
    • Determine reliability of news and their sources.
    • Identify bias and viewpoints including symbolism.
    • Apply strategies for media analysis to a variety of media outlets.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • It is important to analyze media in all forms to determine the reliability, source, meaning, perspective, bias, and sampling when listening to media outlets.
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    CR Resource Type

    Learning Activity

    Resource Provider

    Other

    Resource Provider other

    Bringing History Home
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

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    License

    License Type

    BY-NC-ND
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