This assignment is targeted to a high school world history class. The purpose of this assignment is for students to cultivate ideas about geography and generate discussion among the students.
Student Instructions – Take 10 minutes to view the images and create compare and contrast chart. Once the time is up, discuss your chart and the questions attached to the pictures with your group mates.
Remember to think about…
What is not shown in these pictures that could give us more perspective? What similarities and differences can we see? How could geography play into these farming methods?
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Remember to think about…
How could these houses represent or misrepresent the type of geographical location they are in? What perspective do these zoomed out perspectives of the houses give you? How do these images compare to each other? What do these similarities and differences tell us?
First off, this is a great idea for teaching geography and place. It allows students to make comparisons through a close reading of the images. I think your choice of an image comparison for the first pair works great. It creates a powerful contrast.
The second image grouping presents a good selection of images. But the “tiled gallery” forces the two images in upper right to be too small to see much detail. I think a “slide show” block would work better.