This document discusses using images to enhance lesson retention and cross-curricular teaching. It provides examples of images of Martin Luther King Jr., Dust Bowl refugees, and monarch butterflies that could be analyzed in various subject areas like history, geography, science, and language arts. The document encourages teachers to think about what concepts an image illustrates and how it could be explained and built upon across multiple classes.
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1. POWER OF AN IMAGE Martin Luther King Jr. at March on Washington. Corbis. (2006). Retrieved March 1, 2010, from Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
2. Would you like to increase your students retention by up to 75%? Discovery Streaming Image Gallery Explain and Enhance each of your lessons no matter the content area.
3. If you say Dust Bowl, what do your students see? http://polliwogscakewalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/just-too-busy.html
4. Oklahoma drought refugees in the Imperial Valley.. IRC. (2005). Retrieved March 1, 2010, from Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
6. Cross curricular integration is so important! See how many areas you can teach from this ONE image. Monarch Butterfly. Discovery Communications, Inc.. 2008. unitedstreaming. 24 July 2008 http:// streaming.discoveryeducation.com
8. Did you think of these? Migration Geography (states and countries) Life cycle Metamorphosis Pattern Symmetry Time and distance Large number calculations Creative writing Observation Vocabulary Gross motor skills
10. Resources used in this presentation: Discovery Education Streaming image library skrbl.com Jing screencasting slideshare.net Want more information? Talk to Kati.
12. Image research from: Crisp, J., Lock, A., Longstaff, A. and Williams, J. (1995). The Use and Capture of Images for Computer Based Learning II Resource for Visual Literacy: Burmark, Lynell.(2002). Visual Literacy Learn to See, See to Learn . First. Alexandria: ASCD,