24 Activities Using Photographs of Castries, St. Lucia.

All these suggestions should be used in the National Curriculum context of a comparison with the home locality.

They can be used:

• as starting points for discussion
• to extend pupils understanding
• to develop empathy and break down stereotypes
• as a basis for teacher assessment

1. Shuffle the captions or labels for the photographs and ask the children to match them.
2. Sort the photographs against given criteria, e.g. buildings, jobs, journeys, shops and services, people.
3. Ask the children to sort the photographs against their own criteria and discuss their choice.
4. Before seeing photographs devise key questions and then seek answers in the pack, e.g.
   • what is the weather/landscape like?
   • what are the homes/settlements like?
   • how is it connected to other places?
   • what signs of change are there?
5. Describe a photograph to a partner who draws it.
6. List features in a photo, mount it and write them around it.
7. Choose a photograph and write a caption for different contexts, e.g.
   • a newspaper
   • a tourist brochure
   • advertisement for a product
8. Around a photograph containing people add speech or thought bubbles.
9. Develop this into role playing the people and their likely activities and life style.
10. Extend a suitable photograph beyond its frame and draw in physical and human features.
11. Choose a photo of:
    • someone you would like to meet
    • something which surprises you
    • a situation you would like to be in
    • contrasting images - rich/poor, urban/rural, attractive/unattractive
12. Suggest images that are missing from the pack.
13. Choose representative images of your own locality to match their St. Lucian equivalents.
14. Plan a whole pack to represent your locality to the Harvey family and their school mates.
15. Photocopy a photograph and crop it. Ask children to suggest what is missing and compare their answers with the actual photograph.
16. Display some photographs, remove one and ask pupils to describe the one removed.
17. Ask children to act out a scene and freeze it into a given photographic image.
18. Write a story about a given photograph, fleshing out the life and experience of the people in it.
19. For a given photograph describe the sounds, smells and other sensory sensations implied by it. What would it feel like to be there?
20. Make lists of contrasting adjectives before viewing the photographs. Allocate them appropriately to suitable photographs.
21. Make connections between two photographs, in terms of physical environment, human activities, contrasts or similarities.
22. Mount a photograph and write all the questions you can ask about it around the edge.
23. Whisper a description of a photograph to another who in turn whispers the description to a third person. Continue ad lib. The resulting distortion will throw light on preconceptions and interpretations.
24. The leader secretly selects a photograph from the pack. The rest in turn ask questions about it until the chosen photograph is identified. No proper names are allowed.