What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 1, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | March 18, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | May 6, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 4, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above, think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | March 30, 2020
Students1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | March 25, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | Sept. 30, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome…
Lesson of the Day: ‘A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion’
6. The article concludes:Hokusai already knew, in 1830, how quickly and thoroughly an image’s meaning can change. It’s already there in the picture of Ejiri. …Here, in a crummy little marsh under Fuji, Hokusai gave us a vision of culture in constant motion.Because art’s meaning lies not only in what it looks like, but in…
8 Picture Books That Let Young Minds Wonder and Wander on Their Own
I DREAM OF A JOURNEYWritten and illustrated by Akiko Miyakoshi.A plaque, next to rows of glimmering keys, reads “Solitude Hotel.” It is late in the grainy black-and-white night, and the eyes of the anthropomorphic innkeeper, who stands still behind the desk, are soulful. Later, as he closes them, he yearns to go “far, far away.”…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 11, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
