Setting: Taking a 'Picture Walk'
Students will be able to identify the setting in a picture by:
* The students will be able to discuss the 'setting' of pictures in a group setting.
* The students will be able to tell their own story of what is happening in the picture.
* The students will be able to color the setting only in a picture given to them.
* The students will be able to choose three pictures from Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection website that have 'setting' within the picture.
* Using the left click button on the computer mouse, the student will be able to double left click to enlarge the picture with a setting in the screen. Using the left click button on the computer mouse, the student will be able to highlight the word 'picture' and add it to a 'Add to My Collection'* on the website Extension: Next day
1) Print out the compilation of the pictures saved on "Add to My Collection" and have the students identify the pictures that each student had chosen. (K-4th grade)
2) Discuss what they thought was happening in the setting for the picture they had chosen. (K-4th grade)
3) Tell a story about one of the pictures. (K-4th grade)
4) Why did they choose the picture? (K-4th grade)
5) Make a copy of the "Map" from the Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection website and have the students find the county of origin where the pictures were printed. (3rd -4th grade)
6) Write a story about one picture describing the setting, using vivid adjectives. (4th grade)
7) Choose one picture and have the students go back into the website and print out the article which accompanied the picture and discuss/write what would have been happening at that time period in Colorado.
8) Assign a picture by County and have the students find the picture on Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection website by using the Map showing the counties of Colorado. (4th grade)
