The invention of photography | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Match the word to the correct meaning

old

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something you have had for a long time or has existed for a long time ✓

new

⇔

something you have just been given, just bought or just made ✓
Something that has already happened is...

in the future

in the present

in the past ✓
Put the people in order, starting with the youngest.

1

⇔

baby

2

⇔

child

3

⇔

adult
Match the time words to when they happen.

yesterday

⇔

the past ✓

today

⇔

the present ✓

tomorrow

⇔

the future ✓
What is this item?

a television

a camera ✓

a photograph

a games console
What does a photographer do?

takes photographs ✓

paints pictures

draws pictures

Exit quiz

What is photography?

the process of taking a photograph ✓

a person who takes photographs

a device that takes photographs

someone who uses photographs to learn about the past
Which devices can you use to take a photograph?

camera ✓

mobile phone ✓

television

book
Photography was invented 200 years ago. True or false?

True ✓
False
What is a photograph?

a picture created by a camera ✓

a picture that is painted

a picture that is drawn in pen
Match the keywords to the meaning.

photography

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the process of taking a photograph ✓

photograph

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a picture created with a camera ✓

camera

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a device used to take a photograph ✓

historian

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someone who studies and writes about the past ✓
How do historians use photographs?

Historians use photographs to learn about the past. ✓

Historians use photographs to compare then and now. ✓

Historians take photographs of their favourite things.

Historians decorate houses with photographs.

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Lesson Details

Key learning points

Photography is the process of capturing an image using a camera.
This process produces a photograph, a picture of whatever the camera was pointed at.
Photography is quite a recent invention, and has only been used for about 200 years.
Photographs are interesting to historians because they have captured ways of life that have now disappeared.

Common misconception

Pupils may assume that people have always been able to take photographs.

Explain that photography was invented 200 years ago and, before that, photographs did not exist. People would have drawn or painted to record what they could see in front of them.

Keywords

Photography - photography is the process of taking a photograph
Photograph - a picture made using a camera
Camera - a camera is a device used for taking photographs
Historian - an historian is someone who studies and writes about the past