Reading Photographs

• Tips for Teachers – Planning: Using Historical Photographs in the Classroom

Thinking about using historical photographs in your classroom? If you need some tips to help you plan, look no further.

• Tips for Teachers – Teaching: Using Historical Photographs in the Classroom

Offered here are some suggestions on how to encourage and guide your students when they are using historical photographs.

• Looking Closely: Photo Analysis Worksheet
• Observer de près : Fiche d’analyse d’une photographie (FR)
  

Try this worksheet to help you think through what you see when you first look at a historical photograph.

• Thinking like a Historian: Reading Historical Photographs
• Penser comme un historien : Analyser les photographies historiques (FR)
  

Described are some of the thoughtful ways that historians read photographs.