Curated OER
Making a Class Web Site
Fourth graders explore and discuss how to create a class web site with a background, graphics, clip art and photos. They assess the safety issues putting a web page on the Internet, develop sound interviewing techniques and coordinate...
Curated OER
Language Arts: Creating Original Fiction
Fourth graders create fictional stories and demonstrate the use of various writing techniques. After selecting their main ideas, they find appropriate graphics to use as illustrations. In groups, 4th graders apply Hyperstudio in...
Curated OER
PowerPoint Probability
Sixth graders investigate film making by creating a video about probability. In this math visualization lesson, 6th graders create a presentation for their class demonstrating the probability of random events taking place in the...
Curated OER
Bringing Young Architects to Surface
Students work in pairs to design a building. In this architecture lesson, students take on the role of head architect to design and construct a 3-D scale model a building for a client. Students' goal is to meet the...
Curated OER
: Movies: How do they work, how does the science world use them?
Students explore how movies are made and what equipment is involved in making a movie. In this movie lesson students view video on film making and brainstorm ways to make a film.
Curated OER
Discovering Dinosaurs
Students research facts about dinosaurs and practice effective speaking strategies by creating a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation in this Science and Language Arts lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. It includes one lesson...
Curated OER
Making Books
Learners make a variety of books using the computer program iPhoto and digital images of their choosing. This lesson for the upper-elementary classroom includes an example of student work and four possible lesson extensions and...
Curated OER
How to Organize a Lesson Plan
Students fill out a lesson plan, just like their teacher. In this how to lesson, students discover the components needed in a lesson plan. Students plan a lesson and share it with the class.
Media College
Media College: Still Photography Cameras
An introduction to the different types and components of still photography cameras.
Other
Video University: Camera Filters
Descriptions of more than 25 different types of camera filters.
University of California
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence: Digital Cameras
A complete tutorial on digital cameras. Camera settings, battery types, memory cards and more are presented in a learning format.
Library of Congress
Loc: Daguerreotype
Online collection presents information about the daguerreotype process along with the type of cameras used in the process.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Science Careers: Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairer
With so many specialized pieces of equipment used in a multitude of areas, there is a great need for someone with the specialized knowledge to repair these many types of equipment. From repairing cameras to medical equipment to piano...
University of California
Knight Digital Media Center: Video Techniques
Learning the different types of shots in video is taught in this online tutorial.
Other
Focus on Photography
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Television Performance Techniques Module 6
A slideshow based on Herbert Zettl's "Television Production Handbook" that explains techniques that one needs to be aware of when performing in front of a television camera. Discusses questions to ask the director regarding how the...
Other
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angles in the Mix
In this lesson, students explore straight, acute, and obtuse angles in artwork. Then students will use digital cameras to take pictures of objects in their environment that demonstrate these types of angles. Students will use these...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Shot Framing: Review of Basic Camera Composition and Framing
A slideshow aimed at journalists to teach them the basic principles of framing a field of view and composing a shot.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Photgrapher
Use this site to learn about the career of a photographer. This Bureau of Labor Statistics website includes information on various types of jobs photographers do as well as they pay they earn.
Other
Catching the Light: Astrophotography
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angle Scavenger Hunt
For this lesson, learners will explore straight, right, acute, and obtuse angles. Students will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the school to search for examples of these types of angles. The learners will use digital cameras to record...
Other
Animate clay.com: Clay and Stop Motion Animation Page
A totally cool site on clay animation. There are tips on how to make your clay objects come to life!
Other
World Coin
From a shop that sells U.S. and foreign coins, this page has pictures of many coin types. Choose a country from the left-hand navigation bar, then click on the thumbnail image of a camera to see pictures of coins from that country. Gold...