Historical Heads: Turn Words into Pictures while Analyzing People

Can’t think of a way to force your students to process information and utilize higher order thinking skills? Make them draw! By converting written words and thoughts into pictures, students are at least applying the knowledge and at best synthesizing it into something brand new.

A great method for Social Studies and Language Arts that uses this approach is called historical heads. What do you need? Knowledge of a person or group of people, a blank outline of a head (Blank Historical Head), and some creativity.

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