I have chosen these images because they clearly show the characteristics of the different ecosystems so they can be used as a visual support to reinforce the contents learned during the lessons, and they can also be used to spot these characteristics on real images which could be way more meaningful and interesting than doing the same activities with diagrams or made up pictures.
Photograph by 12019 
A suggested activity could be to stick some flashcards or write the name of different parts or characteristics on the images projected on the white board.
They can also be used as a starting point of the lesson or the unit to do an initial assessment on student's previous knowledge.
They can also be used as a starting point of the lesson or the unit to do an initial assessment on student's previous knowledge.
A follow-up activity could be to make students look for similar pictures and create a display which later on can be presented by students, or to study these content. These displays would be hanged on the bulletin board of the class and by taking pictures of them we can create a digital board using Pinterest.
The starting point of this task is Pixabay. There, one can find tons of free images. As I decide to look for ecosystems I just typed the word ecosystems and chose the images I liked the most. Then I save the links to these images and to their authors webpages in wordpad. Aftewards I created this entry of the blog and insert the images into it, placing the links to the sources an authors of each image just below each one of them. Finally I created the Creative Commons licence (CC0 public domain) for the images and placed at the footage of every image using HTML.
The starting point of this task is Pixabay. There, one can find tons of free images. As I decide to look for ecosystems I just typed the word ecosystems and chose the images I liked the most. Then I save the links to these images and to their authors webpages in wordpad. Aftewards I created this entry of the blog and insert the images into it, placing the links to the sources an authors of each image just below each one of them. Finally I created the Creative Commons licence (CC0 public domain) for the images and placed at the footage of every image using HTML.
At first I thought this tasks was going to be really simple, just search on google for images I like with the educational purpose I wanted, but then I read all these things about licences, citting and attributing. Even thought I could be a time-consuming activity and sometimes tedious, it is how things should be done. I personally hated writing HTML, I felt confused every time I faced an HTML page but thanks to this task I got used to it, I am not and HTML master but I can use it proficient enough to create blog's entries.
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Teacher Peter.
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