SOCC Visual Image Analysis

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

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.

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.

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.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

BY-NC-ND

Resource Provider other

Bringing History Home

Accessibility

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