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Visual Literacy- Maps, Graphs and Diagrams

Visual Literacy- Maps, Graphs and Diagrams.

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Visual Literacy- Maps, Graphs and Diagrams

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  1. Visual Literacy- Maps, Graphs and Diagrams

  2. "Some pictures do not have obvious actions occurring, yet we understand them to be conveying something about the world. Things such as flow charts, maps or labeled images in an information book are more likely to show a concept or idea rather than actions…" –Jon Callow

  3. Visual Texts • Help to show how facts and details are connected • Tend to simplify and generalize topics • Show Structure in organizing a topic

  4. What is this map telling you?????

  5. World Map of the effects of the light pollution on the night sky (infrared scale)

  6. “Images like abstract graphs and diagrams on the one hand, and written text on the other hand, contribute differentially to the construction of meaning” -Lemke WRITTEN TEXT + IMAGE = MEANING

  7. Application to Genres • Recount- using a timeline • Explanation- flow chart • Procedure- symbols/pictures • Narrative- use a diagram • Argument- flow chart • Discussion- table (for/against) • Information Report- concept map Like Written Texts, Visual Texts can be applied to each genre

  8. Why use Visual Texts? • Many people are visual learners • Children generally understand diagrams before the written word, so visual texts are familiar • Breaks the monotony of Traditional Learning

  9. MAPS

  10. Why Concentrate on Maps? • Gives students an orientation in the world • Increases cultural awareness • Map literacy is important in all other subjects when discussing politics, economics, and history. Thus, maps are great tools for interdisciplinary teaching • Map skills create a base for other skills of knowledge (graphing and diagrams)

  11. Types of Maps

  12. Concept Maps help organize our thoughts, schedules and plans

  13. Star Maps have been used for navigation for centuries

  14. In Large cities, maps for Transportation are just as influential.

  15. Weather watching probably gives Americans more exposure to global maps than anything else.

  16. Vocabulary • Key/Legend • Latitude/Longitude • Scale • Compass/Direction • Equator/Poles

  17. When studying images, what are some things to look for? • COLOR/SYMBOLS • SCALE • ARRANGMENT/PERSPECTIVE

  18. Specifically with MAPS, what do students consistently need to question??? • How was this map produced? • What type of map is this? • Who made the map? • What is the map’s purpose? • Is the map drawn to scale? • Do different colors represent different things? • When was the map created? • How is the map arranged? (Orientation)

  19. Perspective: Prime Meridian Scale: Look at Greenland!!

  20. Perspective: International Date Line Scale: Look at Antarctica!!

  21. Perspective: The Americas Scale: Again… Look at Greenland and Antarctica

  22. Perspective: Magnetic North has been switched to south How would your perspective change if this were how we saw the world in these “New Times”? Where is Antarctica now?

  23. What are these maps suggesting??? Why should we believe it?

  24. MAP SHAPES… Do they matter?

  25. Construction and Deconstruction of Global Maps

  26. Round Earth, Flat Maps Activity 1: Give students a tangerine and have them draw a global map on it. Peel the fruit and try to superimpose the drawing onto a flat map surface

  27. Flat Map onto Round Earth Activity 2: Give students a flat global map (one of two types- divided and whole) and have them try to wrap it over a baseball

  28. Which map would be easier to cover a round surface? WHY? What does this tell us about Greenland and Antarctica?

  29. Which map is real?

  30. Map of species in danger

  31. GRAPHS

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