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Visual Literacy. Grade 7 Team Presentation. What is Visual Literacy to us?. The grade 7 team focused on Visual Literacy being not only the ability to create pieces of work, but also have the ability to understand and interpret visual texts as well.
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Visual Literacy Grade 7 Team Presentation
What is Visual Literacy to us? • The grade 7 team focused on Visual Literacy being not only the ability to create pieces of work, but also have the ability to understand and interpret visual texts as well. • To help facilitate their visual literacy, we decided we would use cartoons. • They are fun, engaging, and informative!
How can cartoons support Blooms Taxonomy and be used to promote Visual Literacy?
Cartoons for Remembering • Giving students a visual like a cartoon will help them remember a topic being discussed and learnt about. • “Hey Remember about that cartoon with Leonardo da Vinci taking the Original Selfie” or “Oh ya! Henry Hudson was kicked off his boat with his son in the Hudson's Bay” • Cartoons can incorporate modern ideas with figures from the past. Helping students make connections with figures that are long deceased who lived in a different time.
Cartoons for Understanding • Cartoons can simplify concepts that may previously been considered difficult by using visuals for assistance. • This cartoon helps show the concept Mercantilism in New France. It acts like a pictorial flow chart.
Cartoons for Application • This is the step where those higher students can get a little “hands on” • Students can take in what they have learnt and use it to create a cartoon to demonstrate their understanding. • Here, Students would complete the cartoon. Apply their knowledge to create their own slide of the cartoon. • Lead Discussions relating to reading strategies
Cartoons for Analyzing • Cartoons can have many complex meanings and interpretations for students to analyze. • With source base questions making up a large part of PATs and diplomas. Introducing the analysis of cartoons in grade 7, will help prepare them as they move forward into grade 9 and high school.
Cartoons for Evaluating • Cartoons can represent different perspectives • This encourages students to evaluate and appreciate different points of view. • Choose a perspective and support.
Cartoons can be used as a writing prompt. • “Make a headline” and write a biased article defending your position of Louis Riel. Cartoons for Creating