Below is a non-exhaustive list of our history lessons and assessments that ask students to evaluate photographs as historical evidence.
SHEG offers a number of lessons that ask students to reason about historical photographs as evidence:
- Evaluating Photographs
- Civil War Photographs
- Historical Photos of Chinese Railroad Workers
- Great Plains Homesteaders
- Child Labor
- Jacob Riis
- Edward Curtis
- Historical Chinatown Photos
- Migrant Mother Photograph
- Ansel Adams at Manzanar
- Historical Photographs of African Americans
- Civil Rights Movement Photos
SHEG also offers a variety of History Assessments of Thinking (HATs) that gauge student thinking about photographs as evidence of the past.
These HATs ask students to evaluate the strengths and limitations of a historical photograph as evidence:
These HATs ask students to reason about how contextual information affects a photograph’s reliability as evidence:
- Lange’s Iconic Photograph
- Photographs of Working Children
- Gardner’s Civil War Photography
- Rosie the Riveter
- Dome Hospital
- Zulu Chief
- Pancho Villa
- Chinatown Image
And the following HATs ask students to decide what contextual information is relevant for determining a photograph’s reliability: