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Jones Soda Project - Photography as a Vehicle (For Marketing)
Students create a marketing campaign using digital photographs. In this digital marketing lesson, students perform online research to determine the attitude that a soda company is attempting to portray with its marketing. They take...
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Photography: Beyond the Snapshot
Students explore news photography skills. In this photojournalism instructional activity, students examine photographs from newspapers and magazines and discuss the attributes of quality photographs. Students complete a webquest at the...
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What's the Depth?
Students practice digital camera skills by identifying effects of depth of field at different apertures, comparing effects of depth of field with different focal lengths, and creating images showing effect of depth of field at different...
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The Poetry of Sculpture
Fourth graders practice writing poetry while examining all types of art. In this art analysis lesson, 4th graders participate in a field trip to a sculpture garden in which they view sculptures and create different forms of poetry about...
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Learning About Maps
Learners take a "field trip" with the teacher through the school then draw a diagram of what they saw. They bring the maps to the computer lab where they create electronic maps using the software program Neighborhood Map Machine.
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Visual Composition
Students study how elements of visual composition and group storyboards for a one-minute videotaped commercial.
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Newsletters to International Penpals/Keypals
Learners participate in an intercultural E-mail exchange throughout a semester. They send newsletter to international penpals/keypals.
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What's Driving Us?
Students determine what the people in their community are driving. Using traffic flow information, they develop recommendations on how to achieve sustainability. They calculate the carbon dioxide emission index for various sites and...
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The Everglades
Students research the Everglades. In this Everglades lesson, students select an animal or plant to research and work collaboratively in small groups to prepare a presentation.