CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
1. Integrating Visual Information
2. Integrating Maps
3. Integrating Photographs, Images, and Artwork
4. Integrating Videos
1. Integrating Visual Information
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Lesson on Integrating Information from Visual Media with Examples for Practice
- Lesson on Political Cartoons' Effects on Elections (Kennedy Center)
- Lesson on Integrating Visual Information Regarding the Declaration of Independence
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Lessons on Maps, Charts, and Graphs
- "Road to Independence" Lesson - Mapping the Routes to Philadephia
- National Archives Source Analysis Worksheets
- Library of Congress Source Analysis Tools
- Analyzing Primary Sources (Truman Library)
- Analyzing Images (teachinghistory.org)
- Analyzing Artifacts and Placing Artifacts in Time (Annenberg Learner)
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Questions for Analyzing Visual Information in Nonfiction Texts
- Activities for Integrating Visual Information
- Social Studies Skills Tutor - Analyzing Images and Graphic Data
- Smithsonian - Strategies for Helping Students Learn to Look at Artwork
- Strategies for Map, Charts, and Graphs
2. Integrating Maps
- Lesson on Mapping National and Geographic Identity (MOMA)
- Lesson on Analyzing Historical Maps (Learn NC)
- Lesson with Historical Map of the World (Library of Congress)
- Lesson on Analyzing a Battlefield Map (National Park Service)
- - Includes a Tutorial on Analyzing Maps
- Lesson on Analyzing Historical Maps (unveilinghistory.org)
- Learn NC - Integrating Maps with Text
- Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Maps
- National Geographic Mapping Resources
- Making Sense of Maps (History Matters)
- BrainPop Video on Map Skills
- Questions for Analyzing Maps
- Organizer for Analyzing a Map
- Map Resources
3. Integrating Photographs, Images, and Artwork
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Lesson on Migrant Workers Using the Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kennedy Center)
- Lesson on the Boston Massacre Using Images
- How to Analyze Photographs (PBS)
- Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Photographs
4. Integrating Videos
- Lesson using the American Experience Documentary The Murder of Emmett Till (Facing History)
- Lesson using the American Experience Documentary Freedom Riders (Facing History)
- Lesson using the Documentary Worse Than War (Facing History)
- Lesson on International Aid to Fragile States Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
- Lesson on Food Insecurity Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
- Lesson on the Global Water Crisis Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
- Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Motion Pictures
- Analyzing Film (teachinghistory.org)