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Lesson plan: Questioning photos
From the Making a Meal of It! online
resource
Age group: 7 - 11
Aims:
To motivate children to find out more about the topic of food.
This activity also highlights children’s assumptions, attitudes,
and their current levels of knowledge, and so provides a useful
basis for teachers’ planning.
What to do:
You can print out the photos in the
photo gallery for your classroom. You may prefer to have a look
at the pictures and select some of your own from magazines, newspapers
etc.
Divide the class into groups of four or five. Stick photos in the
middle of large sheets of paper and give one to each group. Ask
them to look closely at their photo, writing on the sheet of paper
all the questions that they would like to ask about it. Can the
questions be put into different categories: those which can be easily
answered; those which require further information from books or
other sources; those which have no definite answer but lead to a
wider debate about the issues raised in the picture? It is important
that children understand that for many questions there are no clear-cut
answers. Many answers are a matter of opinion, although they may
sound factual. This activity works best if demonstrated first with
the whole class by the teacher, using one photo as an example.
Further activities:
A variation on this activity is for the children to ask questions
they would like to put to a person in the photo. For example, to
the girl picking coffee (photo 5, see photo gallery): How old are you? Do you
go to school? What types of food does your family eat? Who prepares
the food in your household? Do you have much free time, and how
do you like to spend it? This activity could then be developed in
written work as pupils write a letter to the person in their photo
asking them about their life and work.
Curriculum links:
| England |
Scotland |
Wales |
| English:
- Respond to others appropriately, taking into account what
they say; make contributions relevant to the topic and take
turns in discussion; qualify or justify what they think after
listening to others' questions or accounts.
Geography:
- Analyse evidence and draw conclusions; use secondary sources
of information. |
English:
- Listening in groups; talking in groups; talking about experiences,
feelings and opinions.
- Reading for information.
- Functional writing.
Environmental Studies, Social subjects:
- People and place - developing informed attitudes. |
English:
- Respond to others appropriately, taking into account what
they say; make contributions relevant to the topic and take
turns in discussion; qualify or justify what they think after
listening to others' questions or accounts.
Geography:
- Analyse evidence and draw conclusions; use secondary sources
of information. |
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