Visual Literacy
Science 8/13/09

National
Students Educational
Teachers Technology
Standards

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Guidelines for Best
Practice

1. Images must specifically illustrate the
targeted content and match the
instructional goal.

2. Ensure that students have a
meaningful interaction with images
or video.

Earth at Night
The Skill of Picture Reading

Questioning vs Telling

3. Make sure the images and videos
supplement your good instruction,
not replace it.

The Meniscus

Science Safety

4. Model appropriate use and
attribution of copyrighted digital
images and video.

Creative Commons

Best Practices

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Student Generated Images

Collect Visual Data

• Virtual Collections
• Life Cycles
• Long-term Events
• Before/During/After pictures of
experiments

Analysis of Images
• Observe
• Infer
• Questions

Artwork Thanks
• Image: 'autism neuroimaging study' by Ian Ruotsala at
www.flickr.com/photos/46813052@/189736044
• Image: 'underneath a star' by jaeWALK at www.flickr.com/photos/
31874781@N00/3133924813
• Image: 'Daphnies' by ComputerHotline at www.flickr.com/photos/
36519414@N00/1570948622
• Daphnia pulex Heart Beat by acociles at http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDwYghgb2k
• Earth at Night Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC),
NOAA/NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive at http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/
apod/ap081005.html

Artwork Thanks!
• Image: 'Future is Bright !' by rAmmoRRison
www.flickr.com/photos/73662475@N00/2651957971
• http://morrisonlabs.com/meniscus.htm
• Image: 'breakaway' by Sean Wallis at www.flickr.com/
photos/32868342@N00/1467357780
• Image: 'hook' by EssjayNZ at www.flickr.com/photos/
19387816@N00/2809206955
• www.kaboodle.com/channel/gadgets/post/watch-your-
plants-grow

Work Cited
• Bell, Randy, Gess-Newsome Julie, and Luft,
Julie: Technology in the Secondary Science
Classroom: NSTA Press, 2008
• Dean Shareski at MICDS Summer Institute on
7/13/09. Presentation: “Let’s Get Visual”
• National Educational Technology Standards from
ISTE at: http://www.iste.org/AM/
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