SLOW REVEAL LESSONS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES 

Slow reveal is a technique teachers can use to help students make sense of data visualizations. It entails  stripping down a data visualization so that it’s free of any titles, labels, or numbers, leaving only the signifiers that represent the data, and then revealing one visual element at a time, while asking students questions about what they see and the information each element provides. This page includes several resources for teaching slow reveal lessons that use either primary or secondary source data visualizations.  First, you'll find a library of complete, classroom-ready slow reveal lesson slide presentations, which you can scroll through on the site and copy for use in your own classroom. When you make a copy of the slides, be sure to look for the instructional sequence in the notes section below each slide. At the bottom of the page, you'll find links to "starter slides" that you can use to build your own slow reveal lessons, tailoring them to your unique classroom needs. There is also a repository of primary source data visualizations we have recreated with R software. You can use these data visualizations to create your own slow reveal slides from scratch.