This wonderful photo taken by Jeffery Pippen clearly shows a Black Mangrove.
Image attribution: http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/plants/avicennia-germinans081129-2446z.jpg
We all have different learning styles. Some of us are primarily auditory learners, while others may be more kinesthetic and/or visual learners. As educators it is our job to reach all students. The saying "Ä picture is worth a thousand words" holds true in the class room. Pictures (or other visual representations) can help students make more meaningful and clear connections with the content. Creative Commons is a good source for locating images that can be used to help enrich instruction. I have chosen the following image to use in the class room. It is a picture of a trees living in a Black Mangrove. A black mangrove is different than a red mangrove because the roots grow up and stick out of the soil like straws, rather that acting as stilts for the plant as they do in red mangroves. Although I personally find pictures red mangroves more visually interesting, the pictures I have chosen will be used as an aide to help describe what the 5th grade students will see on their field trip to a black mangove in Bang Phu later in the school year. I believe that this "preview" will help the students focus on making quality connections observations while they are on the actual field trip.
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