Similar high-interest photographs are available to all teachers from historical societies, museums, antiquarians, art galleries, and parents in any North American community. When all else fails, teachers can clip pictures, without captions, from newspapers and magazines or outdated textbooks that are on the school's discard list. Today we are going to look carefully at an old picture that was taken years ago in Florida. Study it carefully and then answer the key question. The teacher suggests that students list everything they can see in this picture.
Students name all people and objects in the picture.
The teacher should phrase questions in such a way that they will elicit descriptions that tell about relationships among persons, animals, and objects. Can you describe the equipment about the horse or mule. The teacher's next question should guide the students to making inferences. The horse seems harnessed to go around in circles. To make accurate inferences, students need to distinguish smoke from steam to infer a boiling-down process of cane juice to cane syrup.