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Fifth Grade Photoshop: Change That Background

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the Photoshop program. In this technology lesson plan, students use cropping tools to crop photos out of the background on a Photoshop file. Students edit and paste a picture onto a new background.
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Photoshop Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students will learn the basics of their desktop; from turning on their machine to opening Photoshop and beginning a new program. The lesson is technology based and the user should have the necessary software.
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Photoshop Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the computer program Photoshop and complete a variety of activities to learn the program. In this Photoshop lesson plan, students distort pictures, swap faces of people, restore a car, and more.
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Introduction to Photoshop - Appropriated Portraits

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders hone their computer skills through practice with Adobe Photoshop. They choose a famous portrait painting, working on seamless integration of their own face into the picture. They work on the skills of using filters,...
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Information Technology: Photoshop Scale

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scaling is a practical skill as well as a topic to be addressed throughout the Common Core math standards. You are given three different presentations and a detailed teacher's guide to use while teaching proportion, as well as practice...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners review the basic tools for Adobe Photoshop.  In this Photoshop lesson, students choose a picture and discuss its properties.  Learners use tools to see how pictures are altered. Students use layers to change their pictures.
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Mondrian - Primary/Secondary Color Study

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Utilizing computer software, learners demonstrate the color spectrum. They investigate the life of the artist Piet Mondrian and define his style of artwork. Then they use Photoshop to recreate some of his designs while discovering the...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders - Autofixes

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete Photo-shop activities. In this technology integration lesson, 6th graders open a picture in Photo-shop and complete several adjustments using the program.
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"Self-Portrait with a Cartoon"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here is a really fun way to integrate self-portraits, cartooning, and basic computer skills. The class learns to use Photoshop to manipulate a hand-drawn, cartoon, or photographic image of themselves onto a separate background. They...
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An Electronic Self-Portrait Lesson Plan - A Unit for Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Using a photo of themselves for inspiration, learners create a multi-media self-portrait. A digital image of each child is taken, it is uploaded into the computer where is can be experimented with in a digital format. Young artists then...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is Word

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create an image in Microsoft Word. In this technology lesson, 5th graders take an image and practice backgrounds, borders, rotation and more.  They start with Microsoft Word before trying the Photoshop program.  
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Digital Collage Mandala

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use Photoshop to manipulate a photograph. They practice the proper use of networks to save and manage files and use Photoshop tools: Lasso tool, Move tool, copy and paste, layers and color manipulation.
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Creative Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self critique their...
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My Ideal World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create an image symbolic of their ideal world. In this lesson inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird and the artwork of Edward Hicks, students use Adobe Photoshop to create an image symbolic of their personal utopia.
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Digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars learn some of the basics of Photoshop software. Then they adjust a photograph for high contrast and produce a digitally inspired self-portrait using scratch art.
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"Newimals"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It's fun to dream up crazy or new types of animals. Let your high schoolers' dream animals become a reality by engaging them in a fun photo manipulation activity that requires them to synthesize two images, match colors, textures, and...
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Digital Wish

2D Project: Deep Space

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Using a digital camera, Photoshop, and a desktop paint program, learners will explore perspective techniques. They apply perspective techniques to develop depth illusions within a scene. The lesson employs both traditional art and...
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Digital Kids Club-Painted Faces

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils use technology to blend a photo of something they like with a picture of their face. Students work with layers, saturation, selecting tools, filters, and affects. Pupils use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 in order to create thier...
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Frame Animation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the idea that an object might never have a "fixed" existence and may be a thing existing always in flux by creating a frame-based animation of something that transforms from one shape into another. They create...
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Night and Day: A Digital Art Lesson based on Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Think about your favorite place ... now, think about what it looks like at different times during the day. How does the change in lighting affect the colors you see? Young artists explore the tools available in digital art software to...
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"Light Graffiti"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The results of this project are sure to brighten any school hallway or dreary set of walls. It begins as learners choose or take photographs and convert them into negative/positive space images. They print, then stencil the image onto...
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Using HyperStudio

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Second through eighth graders use the software "HyperStudio" to create a presentation of their choice on Native American lifestyles. One thing I like a lot about this lesson, is that the students are the ones who get to choose and...
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Class Memory Book

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class members use digital cameras, computers, laser printers, and booklet making supplies to create their own page for a class memory book.
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"Keep Calm Parody"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With a computer and some creative thinking, young graphic designers learn the basics about clip art and inserting images to create a parody poster. They watch a video that discusses the story behind the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster,...

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