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In Depth: Pearblossom Highway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze a photograph and a photo-collage showing the same highway. In this visual arts lesson, students write a descriptive paragraph about both images and identify one-point perspective in art. Students then draw...
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The Important Thing About Huntsville

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a class book and class PowerPoint presentation of their favorite things about their hometown of Huntsville based on the book "The Important Book" by Margaret Wise Brown. Each student contributes a digital picture of a...
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Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students translate the print based content of the play by utilizing mixed media skills to communicate an argument. In this play translation lesson, students analyze and translate the play A Raisin in the Sun and explore themes from the...
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Welcome to My Home Town

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of photo journalism. They research topics regarding their cities to analyze and offer ideas for the future. They write an article including photographs about their city or school at a given era of time...
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Activity Plan 3-4: Let's Find Signs!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop early reading skills as they explore signs and their meanings. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various signs and their meanings. Students use laminated signs as manipulatives in matching and...
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My First PowerPoint Presentation

For Teachers K - 5th
Have your class explore the way to create a presentation using PowerPoint. This lesson provides a step-by-step explanation to describe how to explain this process to your class. The end product is a presentation on colors, but any topic...
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A Photo Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a photo essay and present it to the class. The students bring photos to use for their essay and develop a story using the photos. The students write captions including characters, setting, and plot for each photo. They...
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Martin Luther King Internet Photo Timeline

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create a photographic timeline of the events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Working in small groups, they use internet research to find photos documenting the major events of his life. Their photos are printed and glued...
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Photo Talk!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language. V
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Barnyard Riddles - A Class Project

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners choose and animal about which to research or compose a riddle. They organize and develop a slide show in which they create a background, import graphics, clip art, kid pix stamps, photos, and type their riddle.
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TECH:Class-to-class Interaction (Communication)

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students use interpersonal skills and digital equipment to interact with different classes of students.
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Telling Your Story

For Teachers K - 4th
Have young writers compose stories that add detail to the moments captured in personal photographs and create an annotated photo album. Rather than sending every member of the class home for the weekend with a digital camera, you might...
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Identity and Diversity in My Generation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, according to research, is the "most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history." Gen Z high schoolers are challenged to consider how they identify themselves. They select a photo...
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How the Light Bulb Gets Switched On - The Evolution of Ideas

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The creative process is the focus here. High schoolers make works of art that reflect elements of the creative process. They study the works of Robert Harris, and working as a class, they create a photo montage that includes images...
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Growing Penguins

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A collection of photos and accompanying descriptions describing the life cycle of an Adelie penguin is the highlight of this resource. Working in groups, polar explorers match the descriptions to the pictures and create a timeline. An...
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Building Memories.......

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 'train their eyes' on photography while building memories for their family by creating and laying out the design of a family photo album. They take family photos and write about their value.
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Cubism - David Hockney

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Identify Cubist works (namely the works of Picasso and the Cubist-inspired works of David Hockney), then express or create a work showing a time frame.
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Plagiarism in the Real World

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
How would you feel if someone plagiarized your work? After class members turn in an assigned newspaper article, you rewrite the piece using elements of their writing. Then you claim you will be selling the story and that you will profit...
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Identify And Classify

For Students 5th - 6th
In this consumer awareness worksheet, students learn that hazardous household products have words that identify the risk. Students view 54 photos of common household substances. Students sort them into piles according to the hazard risk.
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Real World Equations!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your math class "get the picture" in a quadratic equation lesson that integrates digital photography. Individuals take pictures to help them model the shape of an item or situation using algebraic equations. They discover how to...
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Mythical Monsters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students design mythical creatures and write poems about them. They take digital pictures of their artwork and create a digital picture book. They record their readings of the poetry to be added a class recording.
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Idioms in Everyday Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create an iPhoto book exhibiting a variety of idioms that describe feelings. They take photos using a digital camera that show students exhibiting the feelings explained by the idioms.
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Introduction to Victorian Valentines

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the history of Valentine's Day and how paper valentines became a tradition in Victorian times. Using a photo organizer, they select photos using tags. They use a software program to create a special image for their...
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Pollution Research

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore pollution. They conduct preliminary research on pollution using the internet. Students share their findings with the group. They work with a group and create lists of facts on pollution.