Photographs as History
All provinces and territories except Quebec: Grades 7 to 12
Quebec: Secondary 1 to 5
Students analyze official Canadian First World War photographs and make connections to issues, values, and events reflected in the photographs. Download the full package (pdf). [PDF 2421k] Includes two lesson plans, two worksheets, and high quality photographs.
Lesson Plans - Photographs as History (pdfs):
- Grades 7 to 9/Secondary 1 to 3, Lesson Plan, Photograph as history (pdf) [PDF 51k]
- Grades 7 to 9/Secondary 1 to 3, Photograph Analysis Worksheet (pdf) [PDF 37k]
- Grades 10 to 12/Secondary 4 to 5, Lesson Plan, Photographs as history (pdf) [PDF 53k]
- Grades 10 to 12/Secondary 4 to 5, Photograph Analysis Worksheet [PDF 34k]
Resources: Official First World War Photographs (List of Images):
Resources: Official First World War Photographs (pdf) [PDF 2418k]- Draining Trenches
- Funk Hole
- A Dry Trench
- Demolished German Trench
- Festubert
- German Prisoners Acting as Stretcher-Bearers
- Advance of 29th Battalion at Vimy
- Vimy Fortifications
- Passchendale Mud
- The Injured Passing the Dead
- In the Mud
- Repairing Guns
- Resting in a Shell Hole
- Resting in Mons
- Mustard Gas Victims
- Returning on a Tank
- After a Trench Raid
- Pigeon Message
- Unloading Heavy Shells
- Pack Horses
- Felling Trees
- Washing Day
- Kite Balloons
- Returning from the Front
- Break Before Moving Up the Line
- Entertaining Comrades
- Getting into Character
- Pull!
