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It is a matter of perspective. I think analyzing perspective is a powerful activity to do with any grade level of student Pre K - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 . I would have the students take one photograph at a time and think about what they see for one minute then add a different perspective of the same event to consider what they think is happening. Note how a perspective of the photographer can change your perspective of an event.
Have students consider this as they look at any medium. What is the purpose? Why did the photographer choose this angle? How does the angle of the subject change your perspective? What did you first think? What do you think with the last photograph? Even changing the order of the photographs can change your thinking. bestof
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Wonderful perspective in these photos 
Cheryl Best
. Thanks for adding this idea and album. Also great for high school students.
I think this would be a good series of photographs to use with any photography class, from elementary through adult learners. It says a lot about how photographers frame and select images. It's a really cogent grouping, and if I get to work with the UArts photography course in the future, I will be sure to use your album. I love how the TPS Teachers Network makes my teaching better!
For a webinar on photography, I liked to use one of Ansel Adam's Manzanar photographs, 
Adams, Ansel, photographer. Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west Sierra Nevada in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. California Manzanar, 1943. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002695970/.
to ask some of the same questions you ask as well as "What's missing from this picture?" Because Adams took the image from the guard tower, the photograph doesn't show the barbed wire fencing or the guard towers surrounding the camp. Here's a piece from the NPR show Code Switch on 3 photographers' perspectives of Japanese internment camps: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment
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