English/Language Arts
Explore Media Messages
All media messages are constructed, and we need for our students to understand that. THis Minute offers an observation about how this image is the single most reprinted photograph in human history. Have your students think about what the intent might be behind using this image in a media message. Who would the audience be? What might someone using this photo be trying to communicate? Once they have speculated, send them looking for places this image has been use. How does reality stack up against their guesses. Are they close? Why or why not?
Social Studies
Explore the social and political impact of space travel
Use this Minute as an anticipatory set to exploring the great space race between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Why was it so important to get men to outer space? Dows this reason still exist today? Why have we stopped sending men to the moon?
Explore geography
Use this Minute to reinforce visual geography.
STEM
Explore adaptive technologies
Taking a photograph in an extreme environment requires thinking about potential adaptations that may be needed for success. Use this Minute to create a thinking exercise for your students. What extreme environments might we want to photograph? What conditions might require some equipment adaptations in order to photograph there?
Explore Plate tectonics
The photograph Author Siy presents is a visual representation of the supercontinent Pangea. Us this Minute to introduce or reinforce the concept of Pangea and the plate tectonics that shifts our continents.
Explore Weather patterns
What an awesome thing to see the clouds swirling and spinning over our planet. No small wonder that this photograph has been so often and widely shared. Have students take a closer look. What can we learn about our weather patterns by examining the photograph? How do clouds behave? What causes the swirls and whirls? How can these kinds of photographs help us to understand the planet we inhabit?
Art
Explore photography
This is a truly stunning photograph. Why? What make s a photograph “good? Have students explore the mechanics of good photography, then have them explore how art takes a photograph from good to spectacular.
Research Skills
Explore intellectual property rights
The actual creator of this photograph has proved impossible to pinpoint. Still, it is intellectual property and should be properly cited when used. What decision did BNASA make concerning the creator of this photo? Have your students explore the idea of intellectual property and how a society values (or does not value) the individual right of ownership affects the creation of works of intellectual property.
Explore Media Messages
All media messages are constructed, and we need for our students to understand that. THis Minute offers an observation about how this image is the single most reprinted photograph in human history. Have your students think about what the intent might be behind using this image in a media message. Who would the audience be? What might someone using this photo be trying to communicate? Once they have speculated, send them looking for places this image has been use. How does reality stack up against their guesses. Are they close? Why or why not?
Social Studies
Explore the social and political impact of space travel
Use this Minute as an anticipatory set to exploring the great space race between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Why was it so important to get men to outer space? Dows this reason still exist today? Why have we stopped sending men to the moon?
Explore geography
Use this Minute to reinforce visual geography.
STEM
Explore adaptive technologies
Taking a photograph in an extreme environment requires thinking about potential adaptations that may be needed for success. Use this Minute to create a thinking exercise for your students. What extreme environments might we want to photograph? What conditions might require some equipment adaptations in order to photograph there?
Explore Plate tectonics
The photograph Author Siy presents is a visual representation of the supercontinent Pangea. Us this Minute to introduce or reinforce the concept of Pangea and the plate tectonics that shifts our continents.
Explore Weather patterns
What an awesome thing to see the clouds swirling and spinning over our planet. No small wonder that this photograph has been so often and widely shared. Have students take a closer look. What can we learn about our weather patterns by examining the photograph? How do clouds behave? What causes the swirls and whirls? How can these kinds of photographs help us to understand the planet we inhabit?
Art
Explore photography
This is a truly stunning photograph. Why? What make s a photograph “good? Have students explore the mechanics of good photography, then have them explore how art takes a photograph from good to spectacular.
Research Skills
Explore intellectual property rights
The actual creator of this photograph has proved impossible to pinpoint. Still, it is intellectual property and should be properly cited when used. What decision did BNASA make concerning the creator of this photo? Have your students explore the idea of intellectual property and how a society values (or does not value) the individual right of ownership affects the creation of works of intellectual property.
© Karen Sterling, 2017 - May be used for educational purposes without written permission