Use your observation skillsto guess what this image is …

What could this possibly be?

What information can you gather from this portion of the image?

A little more information … what has been added?

Does it help you identify the image?

Now there is more information, but is it enough?

Hmmm,

What is new at this point?

Do you have enough information to make an informed decision?

I bet you know what it is now!!!

Can you name some of the items you see at this point?

What do you think the rest of the image will look like?

No mystery now – It’s a model of an atom! Can you name all the sub-particles you see? What’s up with the spider in the center? Could this really be? Why or why not?

This is how the image was displayed in the original poster dated sometime between 1965 and 1980.

Image Details

Title summary: Only atomic energy assures us of a radiant future.

A nuclear power plant in the form of a spider at center of orbital model of atomic structure with electrons represented as human faces labeled: "TIIV," "NWRAG," and "Bild."

Teacher note: TIIV may be Ti IV, which is a heavy metal. Political poster.

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/yan/1a36000/1a36500/1a36551t.gif

     

  

Unknown. (1965-1980). Nur Atomenergie sichert uns eine strahlende Zukunft. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Posters: Yanker Poster Collection.