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About Picture Sets

Picture Sets is a searchable collection of carefully selected sets of drawings, photographs and paintings. The sets can be used:

  • as information sources, obtained in a critically thoughtful way, about topics in social studies
    and science.
  • as a context for developing critical thinking tools that are particularly useful with visual stimulation and also applicable generally.


View sample picture sets and supporting resources for:


  • Using Picture Sets: general suggestions to support inquiry teaching using visual sources.
  • Topics: lists of broad areas of study that contain many sets of images dealing with more specific themes within each topic.

  • Individual Picture Sets each contain four elements:

    • Overview of the set: summary description, thumbnail images, annotations, pdf and PowerPoint versions of the image set
    • Image viewer: options to select, enlarge, navigate, or save images
    • Student tasks: suggested critical thinking tasks that can be addressed with the information contained in the designated set of images
    • Teacher notes: instructions and support materials that include teacher resources, student handouts and background information for teachers

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Karen LaRone, Project manager
Carlos Ormond, Production coordinator
Susan Teed, Web production manager
Roland Case, Project supervisor

Resource editors
Genie MacLeod
Carrie Arbuckle
Erica Anderson

Reseachers
Jan Nicol
Romy Cooper

Kathy Pantaleo
Sherry Taylor
Judy Wearing
Cynthia Nicolson
Diane Shelling
Siria Szkurhan

 

 

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