a picture is worth a thousand words. gallery walk mediha din el camino college sociology
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A picture is worth
a thousand words
Gallery Walk
Mediha DinEl Camino College
Sociology
Today1.How it works2.Gallery walk activity3.Purpose4.How to adapt this activity in your classroom
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How it worksPassive learning becomes active
Use images, inquiry, movement in the classroom, and peer interaction
to build student interest and increase retention
• Particularly of people• Students see real lives
behind concepts• Builds human-to-human
connections
Images
Primary Source ImagesLibrary of Congress website
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Gallery Walk Directions1.Walk around and view all of the images2.After buzzer, stand by the image that interests you most (NO MORE THAN 5 PEOPLE PER IMAGE)3.With the others at your image answer the following questions:
a)Why did you select this image?b)What do you think is happening in this image? Who? What ? Where? When?c)Why do you think this image was selected for class?d)Select a speakere)Return to your seats when you hear the buzzer
(Try avoiding group members that already sit near you)
a)Why did you select this image?b)What do you think is happening in this image? Who? What ? Where? When?c)Why do you think this image was selected for class?d)Select a speakere)Return to your seats when you hear the buzzer
Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at Carlisle from Fort Marion, Florida November 4th, 1886
“Kill the Indian and save the man” ~ Captain Richard Henry Pratt, Founder, Carlisle Indian School, PA
Title: Group of Indian Boys, from Dakota territory, taken after about fifteen month's residence at Hampton, Virginia. March, 1880.
Educating the Indians. Illustration. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated newspaper, 15 March 1884.
Title: View of Ellis Island Looking across water toward immigration station
New York 1913.
"Work on the Last Mile of the Pacific Railroad -- Mingling of European with Asiatic Laborers": From Harper's Weekly: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 13 Image created 1869
Chinese immigrants made up 90% of workers on U.S. railroads in mid to late 1800’s. However white workers did not allow Chinese immigrants to be in the photo marking the completion of the railroad to the West Coast
Music for the Nation: American Sheet MusicThe Chinamen must go by H. B. Pasmore.
CREATED/PUBLISHEDSan Francisco: Gibson, J. W., 1880.
Political cartoon titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" by Thomas Nast (1840-1902) published in Harper's Weekly on September 2nd 1871
1860’s New York. Discrimination against Irish in the job market.
History of Discrimination in Immigration Law
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: excluded Chinese laborers for 10 years
Immigration Act of 1921: restrictions Southern and Eastern Europe, quota for each nationality.
Japanese American Internment During World War IITitle: Japanese residents at Civil Control station for registration
San Francisco April 1942
Japanese American Internment During World War IITitle: Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control
San Francisco, April 1942
Attorneys for Brown v. Board of EducationGeorge E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit congratulating each other May 17, 1954.
United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional
Ruby Bridges New Orleans, Louisiana 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the
integration of the New Orleans School system. She is known as the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrkMxorZT4&feature=related
Cesar Chavez 1960’s Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. His work led to numerous improvements for union workers.
Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy Cesar Chavez breaks his 25-day fast by accepting bread from Senator Robert Kennedy, Delano, California.Left to right: Helen Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez March 10, 1968
July 31st, 2010 Temecula, CA “Small group protests the building of a mosque in Temecula” LA Times
Quote from PoemHuman Familyby Maya Angelou
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Gallery walk activity promotes
•student inquiry•collaboration•use of background knowledge•critical thinking•analytical skills•engagement•retention
How can I adapt this activity?
How can I adapt this activity?
How can I adapt this activity?
How can I adapt this activity?
How can I adapt this activity?
Activity can be used• icebreaker
• introduce the units of a course at the beginning of the semester
• assess student prior knowledge
• new unit/chapter throughout the semester
• review concepts before an exam
How can you use the compass activity in your classroom?
1.What subject do you teach?
2.Do you think you will use the Gallery Walk Activity with
your students?
3.If yes: when in the semester? What content might you
connect it with?
If no: How might you adapt this activity for use with your
students?
Logistic Tips:•Paper protectors to reuse the images
•Buzzer/Timer
•Moving chairs and backpacks
Questions?Contact:Mediha DinWebsite: [email protected]
El Camino College, Sociology
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Gallery Walk
Increase student engagement in content that may be historical or knowledge based in nature
More tips here: http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/04/analyzing-primary-sources-learning-from-images/
Lesson inspired from:
The Art of Teaching with Primary Sources: http://cotsen.org/uclalabschool/tps/ “Using Primary Sources to Support Inquiry in Social Studies”
And the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
Inquiry-based learning
When Filipino American farm workers initiated the Delano grape strike on September 8, 1965 to protest for higher wages, Cesar Chávez eagerly supported them.
Oct 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA --- Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past demonstrators protesting desegregation at Baltimore high schools.