ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Understanding Content Through Photography
This lesson plan is designed to assist students making self-text-world connections through multimedia presentations. This plan includes a student guide for writing the reflection scripts as well as a detailed instructional plan.
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University of Central Florida: English Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera
This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.
PBS
Pbs: Arts
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
This language arts lesson uses technology to assess students' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the picture...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: That's the Story!
This is a fun lesson where the students use thinksheets and digital cameras. The students take an "interesting" picture using the digital camera. After they have printed them they are given at random another student's picture. They write...
Duke University
William Gedney: Photographs and Writings
A beautiful collection of black and white photographs from around the world. Taken by William Gedney in the 1950s-1980s they show true artistry.
New York University
Collected Visions
Photos from our past connect us to certain thoughts, feelings, and stories. Share your story on this growing collection of personal family snapshots and essay or read those of others.
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Kodak: Language Arts Lesson Plans
This site from Kodak is overflowing with lesson plans to use in your language arts classroom. Teachers from every grade level have submitted activities integrating photography into their lessons.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Dear Santa, It's Me!"
In this lesson learners will become familiar with a digital camera and will increase word processing and keyboarding skills by writing a friendly letter to Santa.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Capturing a Moment in Time
This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson learners will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Look at Me!
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
EL Education
El Education: Kid's Guide to Buffalo & Erie Co. Botanical Gardens
Elementary students at the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, created this brochure of their local botanical gardens to be used by other students. Each student selected a specific plant to research, photograph, and write...
EL Education
El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...
EL Education
El Education: Pieces of Me
Students take photographs of their favorite body parts and then write essays explaining why this part is their favorite.
EL Education
El Education: Seasons of Life
Students make multiple visits to a nursing home to develop a relationship with one person and learn about his or her life. Then students use a combination of illustrations, photographs, digital pictures, and biographical text to create a...
EL Education
El Education: Fourth Grade Tumbler's Manual
This manual was created by 4th grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, during a learning expedition on rocks and minerals. The expedition included fieldwork to local geological sites and to...
EL Education
El Education: The Important Thing About Our Families
Students write complete sentences about their families. As they learn to punctuate sentences correctly, type them on a computer, and take digital pictures, they work together to create a class book.
EL Education
El Education: Give Bees a Chance
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,...
EL Education
El Education: A Revitalization Report
In 2008, the ARTWalk 2 Planning Committee in Rochester, New York invited the sixth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School to make a meaningful contribution to the expansion of public art in Rochester. A Revitalization Report...
EL Education
El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines
Eleventh grade students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego California are the authors of this book: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes & Heroines. To create this collection of essays each student reflected on...