The Crop-It gallery hosts examples of crop-its that teachers have used in their classrooms. Feel free to use one that you think is useful, or copy the URL of an image and make your own Crop-it in the Creator.
In choosing a crop-it for your students to work on, consider the types of student thinking that the questions might nurture, and try to choose an image that meets at least one of these criteria:
1. connects to your experiences,
2. represents something you know about or teach, or
3. inspires questions.
Title: Iowa and Nebraska Lands
Subject: U.S. History
Grade: 8th
Lesson/Unit: Western Expansion
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to to a clue that tells us the title of this image.
What does the title and date of the image tell you?
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a clue that you have a question about.
What is your question?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a fact that this image definitively tells us about the past.
How do you know this is a fact?
4
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to why this image was important at the time it was created.
What else was going on during this time period?
5
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a place where you would add something to this image.
What would you add and why?
Title: Jackie Robinson
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 4th
Lesson/Unit: Sports Throughout History
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show an engaging beginning.
What makes beginnings engaging?
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show a high point middle.
What makes a story interesting?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show a memorable ending.
Why do we remember stories?
Title: School/Factory/State
Subject: U.S. Government
Grade: 10th
Lesson/Unit: Protests in the Press
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to to a clue that tells us the title of this image.
What does the title and date of the image tell you?
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a clue that you have a question about.
What is your question?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a fact that this image definitively tells us about the past.
How do you know this is a fact?
4
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to why this image was important at the time it was created.
What else was going on during this time period?
5
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a place where you would add something to this image.
What would you add and why?
Title: Sojourner Truth
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 5th
Lesson/Unit: The Civil Rights Movement
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a part of the picture that caught your eye?
Describe how shapes and colors make you infer the things in the picture.
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the most important object in this photograph.
Why were the objects placed in this portrait? What is the meaning of each object?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a clue that helps us know when this was taken.
What helps us identify time?
4
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to something that sparks questions for you?
Write your wondering like this sentence: "I see ____ that makes me wonder____."
Title: Census Calculations
Subject: Statistics
Grade: 8th
Lesson/Unit: Logarithms
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to zoom in on the variables.
Describe what the variable may represent.
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the information that you could use to determine the value of r
How would you determine the value of r?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the use of logs.
What properties of logs are being used here?
4
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the answer.
Do you agree with the answer?
5
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a problem the person set up to find t.
Can you find t?
6
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the work to find t
Compare your process to this person's work.
7
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to the information about the 1791 census numbers written by Thomas Jefferson.
What was he trying to determine? Who did the United States Census represent at this time? Who is represented now?
Title: Little Miss Muffet
Subject: English
Grade: 6th
Lesson/Unit: Poetry
1
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show what first caught your eye.
Why did you notice this part?
2
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show who or what this image is about.
Why is this person important?
3
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a clue that tells us when this is happening.
What helps us recognize specific times?
4
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show a tension or a problem.
Do you see other problems?
5
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to show a message this poster sends about literacy.
Why is this important?
6
Prompt:
Think:
Crop to a hidden message you see in this image.
Explain the message so viewers can see it, too.