Try this worksheet to help you think through what you see when you first look at a historical photograph.
Offered here are some suggestions on how to encourage and guide your students when they are using historical photographs.
Thinking about using historical photographs in your classroom? If you need some tips to help you plan, look no further.
Photographer Fredrick Dally’s story is highlighted to give you more insight into his images of BC’s Gold Rush.
Read this article by educator Tom Morton for some useful guiding questions to ask yourself when you are looking at historical photographs.
This article by Dennis Duffy and David Mitchell appeared in Bright Sunshine and a Brand New Country, a 1979 publication in the BC Archives’ Sound Heritage series. It examines the British Columbia oral history work of CBC radio producer Imbert Orchard, drawing on a 1978 interview with Orchard.
E-Fauna BC’s Spiders of British Columbia is authored by Royal BC Museum research associate Dr Robb Bennett. This Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia is an excellent resource to find out more about spider life in this province.
Royal BC Museum Curator, Dr Gavin Hanke writes about removing and preserving baleen from a Grey Whale that washed up on Long Beach, Vancouver Island on April 20th, 2015.