Who Are They?

Designed by a pre-professional high schooler who interned in an elementary school, here is an activity that could nicely support developing observation skills, reading and writing biography, thinking critically about assumptions, and just plain imagination via visual literacy. Your learners observe unlabeled photographs of famous people and construct biographies of them by answering five questions based on what they see. Create more complex questions and use more esoteric historical figures with older learners.