Investigating images
This pathway brings together activities and resources for primary students who are using images to explore Victorian history.
By studying one source closely, students can:
- learn what life was like during a particular period
- experience personal stories from the past
- explore a particular issue, event or person in detail
- illustrate how authors and artists construct their work.
You might like to choose a number of activities to work through, or set up activites in a rotation.
Learning intention
- Pose a range of questions about the past
- Locate relevant information from a range of sources
- Identify the origin and purpose of primary and secondary sources
- Identify and describe points of view, attitudes and values in primary and secondary sources
- Draw conclusions about the usefulness of sources
Resources
An image relevant to the topic being studied (see More to explore at the bottom of the page for a variety of great digital image resources)
Image study - primary - student template [Word 33.5 KB]
Evaluating sources - student template [Word 8.52 KB]
For more information, see the Select resources section of this site.
Activities
Analysing images - What's outside the frame?
Analysing images - Annotations
Generating questions - See Think Wonder
Generating questions - Lotus diagram
Comparing past and present - Toys and Play
More to explore
State Library Victoria Flickr page - great albums of out of copyright images from the SLV collections
State Library Victoria digital image pool - search function that allows students to browse thousands of copyright free images from the Library's catalogue.
Trove - Pictures, photos, objects - section of the NLA's Trove website which searches thousands of images from collections across Australia.
Google images - use Google's powerful search engines and tools to find images from different collections around the world.
