Observation

The teacher hands out black and white copies of the actual image to the pupils/students, who will try to find answers to these questions:
- How many parts are standing in the upper half of the picture?
- What is unnatural for the branches of the trees in the lowest row?
- How was the picture made?
- Suggest other titles/names for the picture.

Creative thinking

The pupils/students may imagine that the landscape of the picture was once the scene of mysterious events and unsolved cases. What really happened?
Or, The pupils/students may imagine that this picture is illustrating a newspaper article which is someone's opinion in a debate. In groups the pupils/students may come up with relevant arguments and different points of view. Together with the teacher they may write out the whole article, which can be put up on the bulletin board in the classroom.

Orientation

Find the meaning of: montage, manipulation, collage.
Look up the maning of: gene, acid fall-out.

Manipulation of the drawing programmePaintShopPro5:
The picture is transferred to the drawing programme by scanner or disc. The pupils/students turn the picture upside down by clicking Image and Flip. The row of figures, now at the bottom, will be the tree trunks, and the pupils/students are going to draw the trees so that they grow upwards in the picture. They may use their imagination: whether the branches will keep on growing towards the sky, and whether they want leaves on them. Perhaps something is hiding in between the brances. One of the trees may be distinguished as ''my hiding-place'' or ''my special tree''. With Dropper they will find the colours that exist in the picture, but they may also choose other colours.

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