Examples of Complete Slow Reveal Lessons for Social Studies
Want to see what a complete slow reveal lesson looks like? This section includes several classroom-ready slow reveal lessons that use either primary or secondary source data visualizations. You can scroll through the slides on the site to get an overview of what the lesson entails, but to access the full lesson, click on the title to the right. This will prompt you to make a copy of the lesson that you can use in your own classroom, and will also allow you to see the notes section below the slides. The notes section contains the instructional sequence described in the section, Getting to Know the Slow Reveal Technique for Social Studies Instruction.
Slow Reveal Graphic Lessons Using Primary Source Data Visualizations
This lesson uses the slow reveal technique to encourage students to examine graphs that W.E.B Du Bois created for the 1900 Paris Exposition. DuBois and his graduate students created dozens of innovative data visualizations for the Exposition. The lesson will help students consider the intentions of Du Bois as well as his creativity in communicating through novel forms of data visualizations.
This lesson centers on the compelling question, “What did it take for women to win the right to vote?” It leads students through an exploration of multiple primary and secondary source data visualizations. Featured in the lesson is a data visualization from NAWSA's 1918 Woman Voter's Manual, which you can teach using the slow reveal process.
Slow Reveal Graphic Lessons Using Secondary Source Data Visualizations
SlaveVoyages.org is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. This lesson centers around one of its featured data visualizations and encourages students to examine patterns in the forced voyages of enslaved people and then research events that explain observed patterns.
This lesson uses a slow reveal graph to introduce students to Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre. At the end of the lesson, the compelling question — Should there be reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre? — is introduced. Students are encouraged to do independent research on the long-term consequences of the Tulsa Race Massacre and argue a position.
Slow Reveal Graphic Lessons From Collaborators
Amanda Westenberg Soliván provided this lesson which uses a graphic from The lines that shape our cities. A summary table that displays current demographic information in St Louis across the graded neighborhoods is used as a hook for students to study the impacts of redlining on the geography of American cities.