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Other

Kid Citizen: Snap a Photo: Agent of Change

For Students 3rd - 5th
How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? This module explores some of Lewis Hine's photographs that exposed children's working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect them. In this tutorial,...
Website
Other

Center for Civil War Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Center for Civil War Photography view reproductions of Civil War photographs, enhanced digital images, and other center exhibitions. With related information about the photographic processes in use at the time...
Interactive
Other

Simple Science: Photo Fixes

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive tutorial explores digital imaging. Students investigate the nature of fading in old photographs and correct the photographs digitally. The resource has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Golden Rules of Photography

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is it that famous photographers do to make their images so pleasing to the eye? Find out if simple rules of geometry and symmetry can make you a better photographer.
Website
Other

Catching the Light: Astrophotography

For Students 9th - 10th
Author and astrophotographer, Jerry Lodriguss, offers up tips, techniques and various images that he's taken both with and without the use of digital enhancement. An amazing amount of detail is provided to explain his approach towards...
Interactive
Other

Benetton: Benettonplay!

For Students 9th - 10th
Suite of games and animation tools where players can design, draw, and play a variety of multimedia games. Flipbook is great for creating frame-by-frame animations that tell stories or simply explode with color. Other games, Odd One Out,...
Handout
Knowledge Share

Super Kids: Doug Engelbart: Father of the Mouse

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative article that presents an interview with Douglas Engelbart. Includes information on inventing the mouse, augmenting human intellect, and a photograph of the "first" mouse.
Article
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

Ingenious: Image Manipulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience an interesting interpretation for the manipulation of photographic images. Manipulation is used widely in advertising, politics, and in exploiting ones personal character.
Unit Plan
Other

Kid Citizen: Congress and Child Labor

For Students 3rd - 5th
Congress is made up of a group of people who work together to improve the quality of lives of citizens throughout the nation. Long ago Congress decided that it was important to pass labor laws to protect children. Why did they think that...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in Integrated Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...
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EL Education

El Education: Give Bees a Chance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by 6th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School as part of a learning expedition on bees and beekeeping. They investigated the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - a local and national threat to bees,...
Activity
NASA

Nasa: How to Make Your Own Eye Popping 3 D Pictures

For Students 9th - 10th
Anyone with a digital camera, photo-editing software, and a pair of floppy 3-D glasses can make 3-D pictures out of their photographs by following these instructions.
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Seneca Falls Convention Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore digital photographs of newspaper clippings about the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848. Includes a photo depicting Stanton in the controversial bloomer outfit.
Lesson Plan
Other

National Council for the Social Studies: A Picture's Worth

For Teachers 1st - 5th
When using historical pictures in the classroom, students will need help drawing their observations together to reach conclusions about the lives of people at a particular time. Sets of photographs - along with probing questions and...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: George Grantham Bain Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This digital collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students to...
Unit Plan
University of Wisconsin

Wi Electronic Reader: Edna Ferber

For Students 9th - 10th
This digitization of the 1918 reference work "Wisconsin Authors and Their Works" contains a brief sketch of Ferber's life and an excerpt from Ferber's 1911 novel, "Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed."
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: September 11 Acquisitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress has received original material including photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts, maps, and much more concerning the attacks on September 11th. They have archived this is a special exhibition.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
Over 49,000 digitized primary documents having to do with the Wright brothers and their work with flight. A timeline of the brothers' work, a family tree, and other special presentations are offered.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set includes photographs, documents, maps, and footage that can be used to explore the stories of environmental issues, political struggle, and human labor that built the Panama Canal.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses photographs, ephemera, political cartoons, video clips, and other documents to explore the women's rights activism inspired by the Equal Rights Amendment.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set includes photographs, documents, and news footage that provide context for the challenges characters face in the play.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Spanish Missions in California

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, and artwork to tell the story of the development and impact of Spanish missions in California during the Mission period.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The American Indian Movement, 1968 1978

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, videos, and news stories to tell the story of the first decade of the American Indian Movement.