Takayanagi, K. (2022). R0001126. Flickr. Retrieved November 22, 2022 from https://www.flickr.com/photos/kentotakayanagi/52514458618/
Photo-sharing sites like Flickr allow users to find and share photos and accurately cite them. Flickr could be used in my science classroom in many ways. First, at the beginning of every school year, I ask students to create a “Scientist Self-Portrait” Project in which students describe their interests and find fields of science that would study such interests. In the past, I have asked students to create hand-drawn posters, but I could adapt the project to a digital collage and ask students to find images on Flickr that reveal their interests.
Additionally, in each unit of earth science, we do research projects on landforms, processes, and events that could benefit from images (severe storms, volcanoes, moon phases, earthquake damage, rock samples, etc.) Students could find images and annotate them to identify moon phases, rock types, earthquake damage level, etc. They could use photo annotations to reveal their learning.
I found a photo on Flickr that shows stratus clouds at dusk. Students could similarly create collages of images and ask their peers to identify elements in the photos like cloud types! The possibilities with Flickr are endless.
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