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Photo Opportunities

Photo Opportunities is a visual literacy resource based on a gallery of beautiful photos of people from around the world engaged in everyday tasks. It includes background information on using photographs in the classroom and lesson plans on captions, storyboarding and cropping for use with 7 - 11 year olds.


  Picking tea in Malawi
 

Photo: Crispin Hughes/ Oxfam

This material can be used to support Geography, Literacy and English.

Using photos in the classroom - background information for teachers includes:

  • why use photographs?;

  • choosing and using photographs;

  • how do children respond to and 'read' photographs?;

  • checklist for using photographs in the classroom;

  • developing key skills.

Resources for use in the classroom

A photo gallery with 22 photographs, plus captions

Classroom activities - three printable lesson plans for use with 7 - 11 year olds

More ideas for activities based on photographs and images

 

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