Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Invention of the Week: George Eastman
A biography of George Eastman, who revolutionized photography with his innovations in film and photograph development. From the MIT School of Engineering.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Invention: Every Picture Has a Story
Use this lesson plan to introduce students to the history of photography and to the sorts of stories that historical photographs.
Other
U.s. Forest Service: Discover the Forest: Forest Snapshot Game
Students manipulate a camera to take photographs of animals they observe in three forest scenes.
Library of Congress
Loc: Daguerreotype
Online collection presents information about the daguerreotype process along with the type of cameras used in the process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are You Wearing?
Students will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: On the Loose With Dr. Seuss
Learners will survey teachers in order to find out the titles of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of each teacher and his/her favorite book.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Telephoto Lens
At this site from Georgia State University Physics Department the operation of a telephoto lens is discussed. The refraction of light through the lens is shown and a link to a calculation page is provided.
PBS
Who Made America?: George Eastman
A quick "snapshot" at the life and worldly contributions of George Eastman. See why he was chosen as one of America's great innovators and better understand how his photography processes transformed our society.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Pringles Pinhole
Simple directions to make a pinhole camera from a pringles can! Try this experiment. You'll be surprised at what you find.
George Eastman Museum
Eastmanhouse: Inventors in Imaging Technologies
See how George Eastman, Thomas Edison, and Wilhelm Roentgen impacted American film history and had inventions that were interrelated.
PBS
Art21: William Wegman
Features a biography of the artist and links to art work, video clips and interviews. On this page there are also links to lesson plans and other artist pages.
Other
History and Discovery of Cinematography
Self-published textbook, by film historian Paul Burns, on the history of filmmaking. Covers pre-cinematic technologies and events and ends with the discovery of motion pictures in the late nineteenth century.
Other
National Press Photographers Association Online
The National Press Photographers Association serves to promote photographic journalism. Members come from both still and electronic photographers, as well as editors, students and other associated organizations. Photographs play a major...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Magic Lanterns, Magic Mirrors
Like fun house mirrors, motion pictures over the past one hundred years have reflected, challenged, influenced, and altered our visions of ourselves and the world in which we live. This virtual Exhibition was produced by the Photographic...
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)
Ingenious: Image Manipulation
Experience an interesting interpretation for the manipulation of photographic images. Manipulation is used widely in advertising, politics, and in exploiting ones personal character.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: That's the Story!
This is a fun lesson plan where the students use thinksheets and digital cameras. The students take an "interesting" picture using the digital camera. After they have printed them they are given at random another student's picture. They...
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Family Heritage
Students bring in an object from home that represents their family heritage. Students then use cameras and scanners to import their object into the computer. The lesson plan has the students complete a writing piece but you could expand...
George Eastman Museum
Discovering the George Eastman in Me the Legacy
There is much to gain from looking at the life of George Eastman. These guided activities will help you and your students come to know the man he was and appreciate him and many others who have impacted our world.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Robert Cornelius
A concise biographical sketch examining the life and contributions of early photographer and Pennsylvania native, Robert Cornelius.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Circle of Confusion Calculation
Understand how we can calculate the radius of a circle of confusion
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Timeline of the Daguerreian Era
Resource has a timeline of events that occurred during the time of the Daguerreotype, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mande' Daguerre.