Industrialization Inquiry

Reading Images: Industrialization Inquiry

This is an activity that can be done electronically or in print. In an inquiry-driven lesson, students review a series of images on a particular topic and use those images to frame their responses. Our favorite thing about this exercise is that it promotes not only critical thinking, but also discussion and collaboration. In the example below, our students focused on images from the Industrialization era in U.S. History. The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a great starting point as you build these kinds of inquiry-driven image-focused activities. This is a great introduction to a new unit. It could also be used as an assessment at the end of a unit of study.