A Gallery Walk

Today we went on a gallery walk. The students walked around the room in pairs looking at pictures on the wall. At each picture the students would whisper and write down some of their thinking. We had 14 pictures in all but here are just a few.

It was amazing to hear the students thinking. Students quickly were able to figure out that the pictures came from the California drought. I heard students talking about what this might do to trees, animals and even tourism. When the gallery walk was over, the students went back to their seat and talked about what they saw. Many students talked about how the pictures really helped them to understand the drought more than the article we read yesterday.

To end the lesson we had the students think about the text structures that we had introduced yesterday. Many of the pictures that we looked at fit nicely into a text structure. For example if you look at the first two pictures you can see cause and effect. The students did a great job of finding a category for all the pictures.

Hope you are having a great week.