Instagram!

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted. It's not for lack of trying, the school year is just flying by! Recently, I have been teaching my students how to make observations and inferences using primary sources. It has taken a few weeks but my students are slowly starting to catch on and to be honest? I'm having a blast teaching it to them! Before the break, students were starting to get antsy. Hey, so was I, so can I really blame them? Anyway, due to my students' ever decreasing attention span, I wanted to incorporate something fun in my classroom to engage that students one last time before break. My students sort of inspired me by constantly creating #hashtags for the topics we were covering in history. So I decided why not use what they are interested in? Students are constantly discussing Instagram, Twitter, etc. I decided to use an Instagram template to allow students the opportunity to find primary sources and make inferences using #hashtags. Let's just say, the students had an absolute blast!

 Here is the template we started out with, which can be downloaded from my  TPT Store :)

Students downloaded this from our online classroom (Edmodo) and used Library of Congress (loc.gov) Or National Archives (archives.org) for their images. I originally was going to limit students to only creating an account and #hashtags for the Great Depression but I decided to let the students have some fun and do any historical event or person. Wow, they had a blast. However, there were so rules to my assignment, such as: username must be a person from that time period you are using, must be a historical event/person, must have one comment about the image, and must have at least 3 hashtags that can serve as inferences. I have posted some of my students' examples below for your viewing pleasure :)

Feel free to download and use my templates by clicking on the images above or visiting my TPT Store :)

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