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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
Grades
3 - 5
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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.

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