Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
John Pfahl used creativity, strategic placement of objects, changing vantage points, and a sense of humor to create his Altered Landscape series of photographs. Students will learn about his artist statements and methods and then create...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: American Photography: A Century of Images (Teacher's Guide)
Access five lesson plans developed for this PBS documentary series on twentieth-century American photography. Lessons encompass research, discussion, a variety of hands-on activities, and extensions that will help pupils examine...
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Digital Imaging in Education
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean Explorer: Aerial Photography & Mapping Lesson Plan: Images of Katrina
This activity from NOAA Ocean Service is about using aerial photographs to assess the impact of extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. The activity features aerial views of Biloxi, MS post-Katrina and enables students to see...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Every Picture Has a Story
This retrospect on photography looks at the history of this art form and compares it to its function today.
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Kodak Lesson Plans: Science
This Kodak site is overflowing with science lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade. Each activity involves using photography to enrich the subject matter.
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Kodak Lesson Plans: Math
Kodak's site has five lesson plans integrating photography into math lessons. Activities involve geometry and other math concepts for fourth grade on up.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
For this lesson plan, students will consider Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. They will learn to support their analyses with detailed description of...
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.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures
This is a 4-day activity on how to write an autobiography. Students also learn to take digital pictures of themselves and use them in their writing.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide students with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson plan, students will use photographs to further understanding of the...
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Cardinal Directions in the Classroom
If you have access to Kidspiration or a similar program you can use this lesson plan to help teach the cardinal directions. Incorporate digital photography as an expansion idea or create more expansions of your own.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Water Retention No Problem With the Key Investigation
Students go outside to a nearby pond or wet area, and collect vertebrates and invertebrates. These are identified using a classification key. Information is recorded using a digital camera and a science notebook. Students later prepare a...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Symmetry: Point, Line, Plane, Rotational
Investigate the concept of symmetry at this test prep site. See detailed definitions and picture examples, answer the questions in the interactive practice pages, and do the classroom activity where learners use a digital camera to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Dear Santa, It's Me!"
In this lesson plan students will become familiar with a digital camera and will increase word processing and keyboarding skills by writing a friendly letter to Santa.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Future Life: Let's Get Real
This instructional activity requires students to select a career and explore the requirements for their potential job. They will work with a reality life situation of married versus single, number of children and challenge events....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
Other
Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer (Teaching Guide)
This guide provides a sampling of the vast number of photographs taken by Erwin E. Smith (1884?1947). It is designed for use with fourth through seventh grade students and places particular emphasis on social studies and Texas history....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this activity 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.
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures
Pupils will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
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 has the students complete a writing piece but you could expand into...
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