Visual LiteracyGrade 7 Team Presentation

What is Visual Literacy to us?

• The grade 7 team focused on Visual Literacy being not only the ability to create pieces of work, but also have the ability to understand and interpret visual texts as well.

• To help facilitate their visual literacy, we decided we would use cartoons.

• They are fun, engaging, and informative!

How can cartoons support Blooms Taxonomy and be used to promote

Visual Literacy?

Cartoons for Remembering

• Giving students a visual like a cartoon will help them remember a topic being discussed and learnt about.

• “Hey Remember about that cartoon with Leonardo da Vinci taking the Original Selfie”

or “Oh ya! Henry Hudson was

kicked off his boat with his son in the Hudson's Bay”

• Cartoons can incorporate modern ideas with figures from the past. Helping students make connections with figures that are long deceased who lived in a different time.

Cartoons for Understanding

• Cartoons can simplify concepts that may previously been considered difficult by using visuals for assistance.

• This cartoon helps show the concept Mercantilism in New France. It acts like a pictorial flow chart.

Cartoons for Application

• This is the step where those higher students can get a little “hands on”

• Students can take in what they have learnt and use it to create a cartoon to demonstrate their understanding.

• Here, Students would complete the cartoon. Apply their knowledge to create their own slide of the cartoon.

• Lead Discussions relating to reading strategies

Cartoons for Analyzing

• Cartoons can have many complex meanings and interpretations for students to analyze.

• With source base questions making up a large part of PATs and diplomas. Introducing the analysis of cartoons in grade 7, will help prepare them as they move forward into grade 9 and high school.

Cartoons for Evaluating

• Cartoons can represent different perspectives

• This encourages students to evaluate and appreciate different points of view.

• Choose a perspective and support.

Cartoons for Creating

• Cartoons can be used as a writing prompt.

• “Make a headline” and write a biased article defending your position of Louis Riel.