Exploring Image of the Week
Migration news updates feature an Image of the Week. As students examine a photo, challenge them to think and act like scientists — describing details, writing questions, and posing hypotheses:
Ask a variety of questions to help students carefully examine photos. Encourage them to observe details, make comparisons, interpret what they see, and consider new information.
Invite students to look carefully at a photo and fill thought-balloons with their wonderings: thoughts, feelings, questions, and hypotheses.
Use the Quest for Details page to help students find the words to describe details they observe in an image. Invite them to use the collected words and phrases to write possible captions for the photo.
- What I Observe, What I Wonder
- Be a Keen Observer!
- I saw, I think I saw, I counted, I wonder
- What do you see? What do you think is happening? What do you wonder?
- What I already know. What I learned from observing. Questions I still have.
- Describe. What does it remind you of? What do you think it is?
- Observations, Questions
- Observations, Interpretation
- Observe. What do you know? What can you infer? What questions do you have?
- What do you think just happened? What do you think will happen next? What clues helped?
- What has changed? What do I know that could help explain the change?
- How does each adaptation help it survive or reproduce?