Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Visualizing Topography

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the topography of a hill, a valley, and a cliff in this interactive activity featuring visualizations of three-dimensional topography in two dimensions. Adapted from Stephen Reynolds' "Visualizing Topography."
Graphic
NOAA

Noaa: Ngdc: Images, Visualizing Data

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Geophysical Data Center has transformed extensive ocean research into colorful video, 3D maps, charts posters and more! This site starts off with a film clip of a dive into the Marianas trench and then lead you to other...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wristwatch Design for the Visually Impaired

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given a fictional client statement and required to follow the steps of the engineering design process to design a new wristwatch face for a visually impaired student at their school.
Interactive
Other

Interactive Data Structure Visualizations: Binary Tree Traversals

For Students 9th - 10th
A great visualization / animation tool that illustrates the different traversal algorithms used with binary trees.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Visual Delivery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on effective visual delivery including appropriate dress and open posture, eye contact and facial expressions, body movements and gestures, and effective visual aids.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.5: Add Audio Recordings and Visual Displays to Presentations

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Links to 31 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance to development of main ideas or themes.
Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Visual and Auditory Processing Disorders

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reference guide for educators of students with processing or perceptual handicaps. Included are definitions and descriptions of visual and auditory processing disorders, as well as specific difficulties and strategies associated with...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Visualize One Part Per Million

For Students 9th - 10th
Parts per million is a scientific unit of measurement that counts the number of units of one substance per one million units of another. But because it's hard to conceptualize really large numbers, it can be difficult to wrap our brains...
Handout
Terres en Vues (Land InSights)

Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Raphael Benedict

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine work by visual artist Raphael Benedict, who was the Merite Press-Papier 2002 award winner and learn how he has won the trust of his people.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Picture This: Visualization

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
Interactive
Other

Visual Thesaurus: Shades of Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, small groups of students will compete in a "shades of meaning" contest to see which group can use the Visual Thesaurus to help them match words with similar definitions but different connotations in the shortest amount of...
Website
Other

Simply Psychology: Visual Perception Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
Bottom-Up Processing and Top-Down Processing are two schools of thought when scientists discuss how humans perceive the senses which they experience. This article explores the two theories of visual perception and cites evidence and...
Handout
Harold D. Underdown

The Use of Visual Elements to Tell a Better Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short article gives excellent tips concerning how to use visual elements to enhance a written story. Article was written specifically for children's literature, but can also apply to other genres as well.
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Visualizing Weather and Climate

For Students 3rd - 8th
With visualizations, we can see the entire planet from all angles at once. We can see the invisible - such as water vapor in the atmosphere and the way air flows around the world.
Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Home Front: The Visual Culture of the Civil War North

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson using primary resources examines the ways in which images shaped the meaning of the war for people at home and the meaning of the home during wartime.
Primary
University of Michigan

Symbolism in Visual Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief essay on visual symbolism in literature and art. Provides examples and nice images. Shows that visual images can have the same type of symbolism as literary works.
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa Visualization Explorer: Enhancing the Extremes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource from NASA shares scientific projections about climate change.
Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of music. Be a music critic and listen to a musical performance. Test your knowledge and play the musical matching game or be a music producer and do a re-mix. Feeling talented? Upload your...
Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute quick tour through the history of theater. View a theatrical performance and be a theater critic. Visit the theater and learn about makeup, sound, lighting, costumes and visit the scene shop to learn about scenery...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition tells the stories of Jewish athletes and the sports they took part in all over Europe prior to the Holocaust, of which many did not survive.
Unit Plan
Huntington Library

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature From Columbus to Darwin

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson module, students examine primary source materials to see how Latin America was depicted by cartographers and artists from its discovery by Columbus up to Darwin's time. They then prepare an argument on why an artist's...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Visualizing Hidden Worlds Inside Your Body

For Students 9th - 10th
How do we see things too small to be detected by the human eye? What about things inside our own bodies? Dee Breger uses a scanning electron microscope to give us a glimpse of images including blood clots, thyroid glands, and lungs with...
Activity
Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Even and Odd Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed definition of even and odd functions begins an in-depth look at how these functions are composed and evaluated in the study of math. It goes from from basic algebra through calculus. Interactive LiveMath Notebooks are provided...

Other popular searches