I decided to search for an image using the Creative Commons query with specifications set to Flickr. I just assemble a Science unit called "Our Dynamic Earth" and decided that "planet earth" may retrieve some interesting results. I found the following image that seems to fit perfectly for what I needed:
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Released under an Attribution 2.0 Generic License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
It obviously first appears as the planet Earth but as you look closer, you see all of the different layers resonating from the surface. This fits perfectly with my unit on layers of the Earth, although it may be a bit "abstract" for my concept.
The photo that I chose to upload is one of my personal favorites. My son got a hold of some Wikis or Bendaroos and wrote his name on the dining room wall. I really just like the simplicity and color and how it looks just like it would if he had written it in crayon. It was just so "him". :)
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Original Photo: "Conner in Wikis"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicae/6428622495/in/photostream/
by Jessica Laurain
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


I think your students will "get" the layers of the Earth image concept. I spent my day with Anita Archer and one of the topics was visual literacy and using images to front load unit anticipatory set information. My favorite picture belongs to Conner. Love the colors he went with for his wall art=8-) How old is he?
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