Making Thinking Visible with #HistorySnaps!

About a year ago, I read a Twitter post from Tara Martin (@TaraMartineEDU) about using #BookSnaps as a learning strategy in the classroom. She also has a website with some AMAZING resources about this activity, including How-To-Videos and examples of how to create #BookSnaps using different digital tools.

Because I teach Science and Social Studies, I typically use this strategy with news articles and we call them #ScienceSnaps and #HistorySnaps, depending on the topic.

For the lesson below, students chose a Native American region to research. I used articles from Newsela to put together a text set for students to utilize in their research. They used the article to create #HistorySnaps to create a visual representation of their thinking about the text and share that thinking with their classmates.

Here are the directions I gave students:

Here are some student examples:

Have you tried using #BookSnaps in your classroom? I would love to hear about your experience!

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