1. Grade 7 Team Presentation
Visual Literacy
Grade 7 Team Presentation

2. What is Visual Literacy to us?
The grade 7 team focused on Visual Literacy being not only the ability to create pieces of work, but also have the ability to understand and interpret visual texts as well.
To help facilitate their visual literacy, we decided we would use cartoons.
They are fun, engaging, and informative!

3. How can cartoons support Blooms Taxonomy and be used to promote Visual Literacy?

4. Cartoons for Remembering
Giving students a visual like a cartoon will help them remember a topic being discussed and learnt about.
“Hey Remember about that cartoon with Leonardo da Vinci taking the Original Selfie” or
“Oh ya! Henry Hudson was kicked off his boat with his son in the Hudson's Bay”
Cartoons can incorporate modern ideas with figures from the past. Helping students make connections with figures that are long deceased who lived in a different time.

5. Cartoons for Understanding
Cartoons can simplify concepts that may previously been considered difficult by using visuals for assistance.
This cartoon helps show the concept Mercantilism in New France. It acts like a pictorial flow chart.

6. Cartoons for Application
This is the step where those higher students can get a little “hands on”
Students can take in what they have learnt and use it to create a cartoon to demonstrate their understanding.
Here, Students would complete the cartoon. Apply their knowledge to create their own slide of the cartoon.
Lead Discussions relating to reading strategies

7. Cartoons for Analyzing
Cartoons can have many complex meanings and interpretations for students to analyze.
With source base questions making up a large part of PATs and diplomas. Introducing the analysis of cartoons in grade 7, will help prepare them as they move forward into grade 9 and high school.

8. Cartoons for Evaluating
Cartoons can represent different perspectives
This encourages students to evaluate and appreciate different points of view.
Choose a perspective and support.

9. Cartoons for Creating Cartoons can be used as a writing prompt.
“Make a headline” and write a biased article defending your position of Louis Riel.
Cartoons for Creating