Interpreting and Understanding Visual Models

Encouraging young children to develop their visual literacy will help them in all aspects of their lives as they grow up. This upper elementary grade series of activities helps student inte... See More

Encouraging young children to develop their visual literacy will help them in all aspects of their lives as they grow up. This upper elementary grade series of activities helps student interact with visual models so they can interpret them and question these models and in the future make better models the way scientists do. This activity is easily adaptable to many grade levels.

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This article provides a lesson that can be easily adjusted for lower or higher grades to help students understand limitations to models. The way it is set up scaffolds on what students alrea... See More

This article provides a lesson that can be easily adjusted for lower or higher grades to help students understand limitations to models. The way it is set up scaffolds on what students already know so they understand how images and illustrations like cycles are only models and asks students to think critically about what these images really mean.