Shifting Perspectives
Help your students consider new perspectives using evidence with the exhibition O’Beautiful! Shifting Landscapes of the Pikes Peak Region.
Click on a card below to guide your explorations of the artworks:
For Educators
Process Notes
1. Assign each student one of the “Shifting Perspectives” cards
2. Before looking at eMuseum, students should:
- Read their card
- Look up any words they are unfamiliar with
3. Have each student answer the question posed on their cards using the corresponding artworks linked in their card.
- Use the notes guide (linked above) to help students organize their thinking
- Reinforce that students should use visual evidence to support their claims
4. OPTIONS: Determine how you would like students to demonstrate their thinking
- Written response
- Video response
- Structured notes
- Other
5. OPTIONS: Determine how you would like students to share their thinking with others
- Online response board
- Google Classroom/Schoology posts
- Other virtual communication tool
Through completion of this activity, students will develop the following skills:
- Using visual text to support thinking
- Formulating an argument
- Using evidence to support claims
- Writing about visual texts