This is an image retrieved from Flickr. The photo shows an Indigenous Australians' hands holding a Witchety Grub. Units of work that could use this photo to engage and initiate conversation, could be, those that involve learning about the Australian environment and people, insects, life cycles, and units that include learning about food. In particular traditional indigenous food(or 'bush tucker'), would be included when learning about food production, cooking and health.
There is a wonderful quick time video available through the learning place of indigenous children collecting bush tucker. I had difficulties embedding this in my blog, as I think it was protected ?, Has anyone successfully done this ? I had the same problem with the learning objects ?
Cameron has reminded me of some other images that can be used, such as diagrams, maps and graphic organizers, and the potential that visual literacy offers. I posted the following on his blog:
ReplyDeleteThankyou for sharing this image, It also provides a great way to model what a diagram looks like and how to label the parts. "Drawing information as a diagram, map or table helps children see how facts are connected, whereas 'making notes' often provides only a collection of isolated pieces of data". (You may be interested in the following site: Using Visual Literacy:
http://k-8visual.info/using_Text.html ). I love the way your image will provide understanding for a range of different learners, in a literacy context.