Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Skillful Slideshows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explicitly teach a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
Unit Plan
University of California

University of California: Geometry in Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real-world applications.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pict

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry that defines a PICT graphic file and explains how and why it was created. Links to related information are available as well.
Website
Other

Ron Reason: Design With Reason

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Ron Reason is a very good site devoted to newspaper designs and articles pertaining to them. Offers tips on designs and interesting articles with photos.
Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Converting Between Odds and Probability: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson demonstrates how to convert between odds and probability. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Converting Between Odds and Probability."
Article
Other

Nielsen Norman Group: Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format....
Graphic
Other

Michael Bein's Home Plate: Graphical History of Baseball

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a graphical review of the history of baseball including batting, pitching, and fielding statistics.
Graphic
Other

Free Web Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
A page full of free animation, clip art, backgrounds, and other graphics to be used on web pages. Simply download an image to use.
Graphic
Curated OER

Traditional Crafts of Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Japanese crafts like weaving, dyeing, pottery, porcelain and others by region of Japan or craft type. Each craft has extensive information and beautiful graphics. Bilingual English / Japanese (Japanese version has more content).