Cynthia's Blog: Using Images in the Classroom

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There are so many ways for teachers to incorporate images into the curriculum! Just last week my class was studying birds. We talked about the behaviors of different birds and why it is important for a mother duck to teach her babies how to swim and dive. Some students may have never seen a duck diving under the water, so a teacher could use this image to make the idea more visible or concrete. We also disucussed multiple meaning words. To help my first graders better undestand this concept, I pulled up images for the word "bill." We talked about how a bill can be a piece of paper money, it can be money that you owe, and how the beak on a duck is also called a bill. Because a large percentage of the population are visual learners, teachers should incorporate meaningful pictures, charts, and diagrams whenever possible!