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: Student Example #1 Student Example #2 Student Example #3 Student Example #4 ...