World History in Pictures

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

For those of you interested in acquiring several visuals regarding various periods of World History, especially Medieval China & Medieval Japan, socialstudies.com provides visuals (for purchase) known as "World History in Pictures." I use these for picturewalk activities in the classroom, where I have students walk around in groups and attempt to analyze the images as they rotate around the classroom. Each one of these sets of images comes with a folder that provides you with additional info. about each image and some other sheets to help you with these pictures. I placed the link below if you are interested in any of the other topics, as well as an example of those that are offered for both China & Japan.

Hopefully it helps!

http://www.socialstudies.com/c/product.html?nocache@[email protected]+record@[email protected]

[Anonymous]

Here are the pictures for China.

Manuel

[Anonymous]

This website seems to offer a good set of materials as long as your school has the resources to purchase them. Some of the items can be vewied for free (such as ten PowerPoint slides of Shogun Japan), but be forewarned. These ten slides were actually stored as a PDF file and took a long time to load because the file size was a whopping 12MB. Once the file finished loading, the slides appeared to be pictures of Japanese art from the stated time period in Japanese history.

The arrangement of weblinks seemed odd to me. After clicking on "World History" on the main page, I thought I might be able to find medieval history for China or Japan under "Ancient World/Prehistory." However, China and Japan seemed to be mixed with other countries under this heading. Medieval Chinese and Japanese history is located in the "Non-Western History" category under "Ancient/Medieval Asian History." This is odd to me because some of the other countries found under "Ancient World/Prehistory" are also non-Western countries. It will be important to help students navigate through this approach to weblink organization.

All in all, however, the resources available seemed to be extensive and useful.[Edit by="cmayfield on Jan 4, 9:13:16 PM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

I think that visuals are great. As a visual learner, I often incorporate visual aides into my lectures. I use various strategies in the classroom, remembering that we all learn differently. I find most of my students desire visuals and hands on assignments whenever possible. A larger number of students tend to be kinesthetic learners, which is an added benefit to those who are audio or visual learners. I am attaching a couple of pictures that I found on the Great wall of China. I plan to do a lesson in drama with the Great Wall. Probably something in connection with the wall in William Shakespeare's "A Mid Summer's Night Dream", or in English with a look at walls throughout history, and how they impact our lives.

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