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Compare and Contrast: School Photographs InteractiveCompare and Contrast: School Photographs Interactive
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DocsTeach
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Interactives
Audiences
For Student Use
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Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategies
Direct Instruction
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Public Domain
Interactive

Compare and Contrast: School Photographs

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This Compare and Contrast: School Photographs interactive also includes:
  • Separate and Unequal: Analyzing Photographs of Virginia Schools
  • View of the Boys Bathroom at Gloucester Training School
  • View of the Girls Bathroom at Botetourt High School
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Separate and very unequal! An interactive presents learners with two images: a photograph of a boys' bathroom at a school in Gloucester County, Virginia, and a second of a girls' bathroom at a different school in the same county. The images, submitted as part of a court case by the NAACP, prompt learners to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the  "equalization strategy" used in the early days of the struggle to end school segregation.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, compare and contrast, racism, prejudice, the separate but equal doctrine, black history month, making observations, observational skills, inferences, making inferences, summarizing, the naacp, supreme court cases, segregation

Instructional Ideas

  • Have groups research the various court cases mentioned in the resource as well as the "equalization strategy"

Classroom Considerations

  • Scholars need devices with internet to access the interactive

Pros

  • Observers may zoom in and out when examining the two photographs

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1

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