Slow Reveal Starter Slides
Need some help getting started? If you're ready to create a slow reveal lesson, but you need some inspiration to get you started, this page is for you! These slides demonstrate the slow reveal process with a sequence of graphics, but need YOU to customize the lesson with an instructional sequence that will fit what you're doing in your classroom. Remember, for guidance on how to plan the instructional sequence and record it in the notes, see the section titled Slow Reveal Technique for Social Studies Instruction.
Starter Slides Using Primary Source Data Visualizations
This graph was created by Harry Laughlin in 1922 and can be found in the Harry Laughlin paper's source. This graph is trying to depict a link between "social inadequacies" and nationalities/ethnic groups. This and other studies were used to justify exclusionary immigration laws. However, the data trying to show that some groups had a disproportionate number of people deemed socially inadequate were highly flawed.
This stacked bar graph was created by Henry Gannett using data from the 1890 census. The source can be found in the Statistical atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census. The graph depicts the urban population distribution throughout the 50 states with a solid bar. The unshaded bar represents the entire population of the specified state.
This graph was created by Henry Gannett using data from the 1890 census. The source can be found in the Statistical atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census. This bar graph depicts the number of foreign-born citizens in each state and territory. We can see the foreign-born population is at its highest in New York whereas the southern states have very few of this population.
Starter Slides Using Secondary Source Data Visualizations
This graph was created by historian Richard Bulliet. The source can be found on the "World History For All of Us" site. Bulliet was interested in modeling the conversion to Islam in the five major regions of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Spain. The timeline dates between 646 and 1293 CE.
If Gannett Kept Going: Modern Extensions of Graphs from the 19th Century
Henry Gannett (1846-1914) served as geographer of the U.S. censuses of 1880, 1890, and 1900 and was a driving force behind the Statistical Atlases of the United States from those same years. His reports mark a high point in early census cartography and data visualization. Due partially to lack of funding, later census reports were made up mostly of tables instead of maps and graphs, until computer technologies allowed for the kinds of visualizations you can find on the U.S. Census Bureau website today. We thought it would be fun to imagine what it would be like "if Gannett kept going." This is one example of our thinking. In 1894, Henry Gannett produced a graph showing population changes among whites and Blacks from 1790 to 1890. The graph on these slides uses data from United States Census to model what it would look like if Gannett continued to produce data visualizations into the present day, and includes a slow reveal process that is ready for you to complete. Imagine if students used Census data to create their own "If Gannett kept going" graph!