Visual Learning
From a single photo, ask your students what they notice and what they wonder. After sharing the photo caption and facts behind the image, listen to the conversation ignite into more questions and a flurry of opinions.
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Visual Learning: Out of Character
posted Apr 15, 2013 - This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about the intersection of handwriting and digital typeface and the fate of cursive writing around the world.
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Visual Learning: In a Bind
posted Feb 01, 2013
- This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live a nomadic lifestyle, and to be forced to live and work in an unfamiliar place.
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Visual Learning: High and Dry
posted Dec 21, 2012 - This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live in a remote area and between two worlds—the past of their ancestors and the present of American mainstream culture.
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Visual Learning: Lost Your Marbles?
posted Oct 15, 2012 - This Visual Learning lesson plan will get your students thinking about community, public art, and why they can or can't buy spray paint.
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Visual Learning: Gauze for Concern
posted Sep 17, 2012 - This Visual Learning activity will get students thinking about the foreclosure crisis in this country and what it might feel like to lose your home.
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Visual Learning: It's in the Bag
posted May 02, 2012 - This Visual Learning activity will get students thinking about how we use plastic, and the implications of living conveniently.
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Visual Learning: Who Is That Masked Man?
posted Mar 14, 2012 - Visual literacy lesson plan focusing on Guy Fawkes mask image and the issue of corporate power and deception.
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Visual Learning: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto
posted Jan 30, 2012 - Visual Learning activity using an image of industrial tomato field in the central valley of California.
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Visual Learning: To Dye For
posted Dec 21, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about where we get our clothes.
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Visual Learning: We Are the 99%
posted Nov 23, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about animals as food.
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Visual Learning: Boom!
posted Oct 25, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about oil spill cleanup.
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Visual Learning: "Out of many, one"
posted Sep 22, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
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Visual Learning: “Who’s that swimming in my pool?”
posted Jun 01, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about our relationship with the natural world.
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Visual Learning: Paper Cranes for Peace
posted Feb 06, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about peace.
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Visual Learning: Out of the Blue
posted Apr 01, 2011 - With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
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