- Guess the fake photos http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0104/foolery/ Ages 6 and up. Can an elephant use a giant yo-yo? Part of media literacy is understanding that not even photographs always tell the truth. Help kids learn that lesson with these wacky photos in National Geographic's Fake Photo Quiz. Kids get to look at a series of impossible-looking photos and guess if they're real or fake. A pop-window explains how the fakes were created or where the real ones were taken.
- Canva for Education site features eighteen lesson plans written by Vicki Davis, Steven Anderson, Terri Eichholz, and Paul Hamilton. The lesson plans include things like Paul's making historical infographics in
which students summarize and visually represent the connections between
historical events and their causes. For the elementary school crowd
Terri has a lesson called Initial Selfies in which students learn to isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds. One of Steven's lesson plans
calls for students to build graphics about percentages. And to take
advantage of students' familiarity with Facebook, Vicki has built a
lesson plan in which students build historical figure fan pages.
- The most famous fake photos
- Zoom.it creates a display of your images in a format that allows you to zoom in, zoom out, and scroll around a large image.( Alternatiave: push down the wheel on a Windows mouse or the command + keys on a Mac)
- Three Unique Visual Thinking Activities
- Media Deconstruction Worksheet
- Cartoons for The Classroom
This website offers teachers lesson plans based on specific cartoons that can be filled in and printed - Visual Literacy Activities Caption puzzle, Picturing history, Be the reporter, Secret history,
- Analyzing historical photographs - For example, go to http://www.loc.gov/teachers There are sets of historical photos and analysis tool for primary resources. Observe - Reflect - Question. You can progressively blow up photos in photoshop or other photo editing programs to zoom in sections of a photo and make deductions.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Education Department. Online lessons, arrange visits, and posters (Each full-color, laminated, 18 x 24-inch poster presents a large image of the artwork on the front and information, looking questions, maps, and related art projects on the back. The resource book contains worksheets, interdisciplinary activities, vocabulary, and annotated book lists.)
- Picturing America
is an interactive gallery of artwork related to events, people, and
themes in American history. Students can browse the gallery
chronologically or by theme. They can click on any image in the gallery
to learn about the artist and the artwork itself. Along with
background information for each image, Picturing America provides links
to additional resources for learning about the artwork and artists.
The site’s Educators Resource page contains a resource book
that includes printable background sheets about each piece of art in
the Picturing America gallery. The resource book also includes questions
and activity suggestions for using each piece of art in elementary
school, middle school, and high school classrooms. The resource book is
available as a free download in English, Arabic,
French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Teachers can download the resource as
one file or in individual chapters. Click Here to Visit Website
Click Here to Download Free Resource Book - Deconstructing Media Messages
- Juxtapose It can help you and your students compare two pieces of similar media, including photos and GIFs. It seems perfect for highlighting then/now stories that explain slow changes over time (growth of a city skyline, regrowth of a forest, etc.) or before/after stories that show the impact of single dramatic events (natural disasters, protests, wars, etc.).
- Your Logical Fallacy Is provides short explanations and examples of twenty-four common logical fallacies. Visitors to the site can click through the gallery to read the examples. Your Logical Fallacy Is also provides free PDF poster files that you can download and print. I dropped one of these posters into Zoom.it for easy embedding into this blog post.
- The Living Room Candidate is a great resource for teaching lessons about the role of media and advertising in political campaigns. The Living Room Candidate has a good resource page for teachers which provides a series of eight sequential lesson plans. The Living Room CandidateThe Living Room Candidate has videos of almost every Presidential campaign commercial from 1952 through 2008. Could also be a good resource for anyone that teaches a media studies course as your students can easily watch the evolution of television advertising through the 20th Century.
- Adomatic for creating personal campaign ads. To create your campaign commercial
- Media Analysis Tools (Library of Congress)
- MarQueed is a tool for organizing collections of images, sharing those collections, and discussing the images in those collections. The basic idea of MarQueed is to provide tools for highlighting elements of pictures and drawings for others to see. You can upload an image to MarQueed then draw on it or attach a text box to it. For example, if I had an image of a cell I could upload it to MarQueed then label parts of it for my students to see.
- Historical Literacy: the more you look, the more you see
- A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
- Fake Photo sites The 15 Most Shameless //Fake Photos// Ever Passed Off as Real **...** | Top 10 Famous //Fake Photos// - The Best of Photo Manipulation | //Photo// Fun - Real or //Fake// Image Game - LIFE
- Postcards from the Revolution.ppt
Find copy-right friendly Internet photos depicting events in History and write a stories or messages about what is happening in the picture. Older students can take photos of themselves in poses that would fit into the scene and manipulate the image to include themselves. - Using Photography to Teach Social Justice: Affirming our Commonalites and Differences In this lesson, students will analyze photographs that show people with different abilities and of different ages to explore assumptions about ability, age and activism.
- Using Photography to Teach Social Justice: Exploring identity
- Using Photography to Teach Social Justice: Supporting underlying messages
- Using Photograph to Teach Social Justice: Advertisements Promoting Activism
- Skitch Draw on and annotate pictures
- The Commons on Flickr. The Commons contains more than one million historical images that are in the public domain. Dozens of libraries and museums around the world have contributed to The Commons. When you find a picture on The Commons, look for the download arrow icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Click that arrow and you can choose from a variety of image sizes to download.
- The National Portrait Gallery has a number of great lesson plans for using historical portraits for learning – http://www.npg.si.edu/education/resource2.html. The lesson that applies to self-portraits can be found under
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Photo Tampering Throughout History
- 11 Ways to Find Panoramic Pictures
- Create Quizes of videos -ProProfs.com tutorials
- Thinglink Make Your Images Interactive Give photos new life with sound, voice, video, social, and other fun links.
Upload image and put tags parts of image to other sites or docs video
- ImageSpike is a another service for creating interactive images similar to ThingLink ImageSpike allows you to upload an image, place pin marks on it, put text and links into those pin marks, and share your new interactive images. When someone views your interactive image he or she can click on the pin marks to read the text that you entered or click on the links that you included. One drawback to ImageSpike is that you do have to enter an email address to get the embed code for your interactive image.
- Model Lesson for interpreting photographs: simple, well organized and interdisciplinary
- Numerous Lessons for all ages
- Museum Box This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
- Looking and Telling format to guide your students in careful observation and description of images
- Tuning in to Media: Literacy for the Information Age In this free award-winning documentary, Renee Hobbs offers a compelling analysis of how news and entertainment covered the Rodney King beating and 1992 Los Angeles riots and introduces the key concepts
- Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War, Lesson Plan
- Picturing Modern America 1880 - 1920
Provides several activities for the user to analyze images, construct historical interpretations, and develop historical narratives. - Old Maps Online Old Maps Online is designed to help you find historical maps of where you live or any other location that you enter into the search function. By default Old Maps Online searches for maps near your location. You can refine your search to a specific time using the timeline slider on Old Maps Online.
- Picturing America is a site sponsored by the National Endowment For The Humanities, and it’s quite impressive. It has an interactive gallery of historical images, and provides lesson plans that include some pretty good ideas on how to use them.
- Caption Puzzle: What's the real story?!
- U.S. History to high-school juniors. In this video (2 min. 47 sec. long), describes a project in which her students used Facebook to report on early 19th-century reform and political figures. Instead of researching and using the collected information to write reports, students created Fan pages, hosting albums of images related to their figures, detailed biographies, and continual status updates written "in character." At the conclusion of the project, students gathered for a 45-minute "virtual salon," viewing and commenting on each other's pages.
- American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS series)
- The Ken Burns National Parks Interactive Photo Challenge is “Find The Difference” game. Students can write on their whiteboards how the pictures are different:
- Comparing FSA Photographs by Ben Shahn: A Lesson in Media Literacy great depression
- The Great Depression
Learn how to use the Library of Congress' primary source collections for the Great Depression. (Learn more)Format: website/lesson planProvided by: Library of Congress - The art of the campaign ad.
- The Living Room Candidate This is the place start. database of 300 campaign ads from 1952-2008. Ads can be browsed by election year, type of commercial, or issue, and each ad is accompanied by a written transcript. The site also features commentary, historical background, and election results. And it has a great set of lesson plans.
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Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Students explore the similarities of the propaganda techniques used in the literary text and in the online political ads to explain the commentary the text is making about contemporary society. -
The Ultimate Presidents Sale
Students will research and examine candidates' background, policies and messages. This lesson can help them sort through the medium to see the method and message. -
Electing the President: How Do You Make Up Your Mind?
Students will understand that choosing a President will require thoughtful analysis of their personal preferences, who is telling the truth, complicated issues, and their willingness to look for answers. -
The Science of Campaign Ads
Using psychology to create more effective ads. -
Five Myths About Campaign Ads
Do ads work? Are they as nefarious as their reputation suggests? Two decades of research has exposed several myths about campaign advertising. -
Political Ad Tracker
Political Ad Tracker takes a closer look at ads from candidates, parties and outside groups and allows you to rate whether an ad is believable and how it impacts your views on the candidates and issues in the 2012 campaign. -
FactCheck
A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. -
Politifact
Every day, reporters and researchers from PolitiFact and its partner news organization examine statements by anyone associated with American politics. We research their statements and then rate the accuracy on our Truth-O-Meter – True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False and False. The most ridiculous falsehoods get our lowest rating, Pants on Fire. -
SuperPac App
Uses audio fingerprinting technology to listen to actual political ads and matches them up against the ads in their database. Then highlights who create the ad and factchecks them. - Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'
- Great Depression, The New Deal and the Media
- Picturing History: The Internment - In this activity, students will view two photographs by Dorothea Lange relating to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and contemplate how a photographer's viewpoint influences the types of images that are created.
- Kodak Civil Rights Photos http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
- Racial Stereotypes: teaching tolerance Images In Action
- Be The Reporter By participating in this activity, students will become aware that viewer expectations influence the reading of an image.
Ads and Critical Literacy Advertising is great fodder for social justice discussions. This series of short lessons can make students more aware of how ads work and how to view them critically. - Ad Generator: Generate invented slogans to remix with photos..
- Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign This website presents more than 250 commercials that appeared on American television sets beginning in 1952 to sell presidential candidates to the public. Advertisements from each election, including the 2008 campaigns, are accessible by year as well as by common themes and strategies used over time,
- Nachofoto search for photos at news sites
- Using Pictures in Lessons Ideas
- Primary Source Sets - Library of Congress
- K-5 Media Literacy lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- Middle School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- High School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- More High School Media Literacy Lessons: http://medb.byu.edu/lesson
- Comics in the Classroom
- George Washington: A National Treasure
Help solve a make-believe mystery! Using a special spyglass tool, you will uncover hidden layers of the painting and learn fascinating facts about the portrait. (Learn more) -
History.pdf Investigate historical images for their accuracy
- Image Detective
Just like historians, students will pose questions to themselves as they look at the photos. Next, students will scan the picture, looking for details that intrigue them. Then encourage them to speculate about what the detail might mean -- to make intelligent guesses just like historians do. - Is Seeing Believing?
"Throughout history the photograph has been manipulated for various purposes. It is important for students to understand those purposes and to learn how to question images they find in media and on the Internet. Here you will find a number of contemporary examples of the "digital manipulation of images" as well as links to articles about the ethics and the issue." Explore the table of contents along the left menu, especially 'Magazine Covers' and 'The Spaghetti Harvest'. -
From "Picturing America": Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech-Know It When You See It
This student interactive, from an EDSITEment lesson plan, allows students to explore Norman Rockwell's painting, "Freedom of Speech". - Reading Media Photographs Interpreting newspaper photos for messages
- Interpreting Historical Video & WRITING ABOUT HISTORY USING MOVING IMAGES
Today, the Library of Congress houses thousands of films within its archives. This activity introduces students to this rich repository of early motion pictures. Students research, then screen one of the short documentary or actuality films from the Library of Congress collection. This activity challenges students’ chronological thinking and historical comprehension skills, while at the same time integrating social studies/history with language arts. - Oakland Museum of California - Picture This activities Includes sort the pictures, create your own museum, historians toolbox with looking for bias, editorial cartoons, learning from pictures and more.
- "Kids as Decision Makers" -- Distinguishing between Needs and Wants
The students will have hands-on experiences with sorting pictures into groups according to the social studies objective: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home and school. This lesson will focus on distinguishing between wants and needs.Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Social Studies) - Freedom with Harriet: Life on the Underground Railroad
This lesson for grades 6–8 will help students understand the experiences of slaves in the South who sought freedom via the Underground Railroad. Students will analyze a painting and create a living tableau that reflects the issues and emotions the painting evokes. - Visuals In The News
- Day in Pictures. The Day in Pictures displays a small collection of photographs from around the world. The pictures capture a mix of serious news stories and lighter cultural stories. The Day in Pictures collections are part of a much larger resource from the BBC simply called In Pictures. The In Pictures resource provides hundreds of images in a variety collections and slideshows about current events throughout the world. Some of the slide shows even include narration. All of the images include captions explaining what is happening in the picture and a little background knowledge about the event being photographed.
- Visual literacy: ending hunger
- Learning to look at art
Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art. - A picture is worth a thousand words
An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. - The power of a portrait
The students will use the portrait Mending Socks by Archibald Motley to explore how objects can be used to tell about a person's attributes and life. - Picture This: visual learning activities
- Images as Persuasion - The purpose of this lesson is to teach students that images can function as a means of persuasion. This lesson will focus on how images can be used to convey messages that may influence an audience. Students will also learn that an image's message or meaning may depend on from what perspective it is coming and on how it is being framed, be it using captions, cropping the image to accentuate a certain part, etc. handout on media literacy: persuasion techniques
- Images as Persuasion (other plans) handout on media literacy: persuasion techniques
- Propaganda Critic
Provides articles, a video gallery, references, and books dealing with propaganda. Takes a look at historic examples of propaganda, as well as the techniques used in propaganda. (Learn more) - World War I propaganda posters
U.S. Government propaganda posters spelled out the reasons for American involvement in World War I and encouraged all Americans to help in the war effort. - Reframing America: Photography through the Eyes of Immigrants// Educator's Guide explores the artistic and social visions of seven immigrant photographers who came to the United States during the period between 1920-1950. The guide complements study in many subject areas, including art, photography, American studies, sociology, history, literature, and creative writing.
- Defining Images in Baby Boomer History
- Tseng Kwong Chi Collection Educator's Guide complements study in many subject areas, including social studies, language arts, art, photography, American studies, Asian American studies, architecture, geography, and history. Suggested issues include the definition of national identity and stereotyping of "outsiders," how art forms are influenced by popular culture, and the "truthfulness" of a portrait photograph.
- Resources for teaching with photographs
Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use. - Teaching with disturbing images
Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used - To market, to market: Photograph analysis
In this lesson, students analyze photos of markets from around the world to gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between geographically distant places, to learn about the economic and cultural significance of markets, and to improve visual literacy skills.Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies) - Every Picture Has A Story
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
This site provides a unique view of American history using items such as posters, business cards, fliers, catalogs, advertisements and leaflets. (Learn more) - Go West, Young Artist
In this interactive game you get to go on a journey back in time and head out West to learn about painting landscapes. You choose your own art supplies and pick where you want to go. Along the way you will meet some famous artists and learn about the art of... (Learn more)Format: website/activity - Pictorial Americana: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress
A collection of images of lithographs, etchings, engravings, and drawings of American life and history in the perspective of the artists in the 18th century. (Learn more)Format: website/general Library of Congress - Pictures of World War II
More than 200 images from the battlefields to the home front can be seen on this site from the NARA. (Learn more)Format: website/generalProvided by: National Archives and Records Administration - Picturing Modern America 1880-1920
Historical thinking exercises for middle and high school students that will build their abilities to analyze primary source documents and images and make connections with history. Students will use this knowledge to create historical exhibits, complete with... (Learn more)Format: website/activityProvided by: Center for Children and Technology at the Education Development Center - Picturing the Century
The photos shown on this site from the National Archives and Records Administration depict many momentous events of the century. (Learn more) - Ten By Ten
Explore current world events; see what's going on in the world, using 10x10: "100 words and pictures that define the time." (Learn more) - Deconstructing Editorial Cartoons
- Analyzing Editorial Cartoons
- Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
- Cartoons For The Classroom
- Political Cartoons In The Classroom (Apple) Short article describing a teacher's integration of political cartoons in a middle school or high school class.
- Reading Editorial Cartoons (Scholastic)
- Running for Office is an online exhibit of the political cartoons of Clifford Berryman.
- Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs
Nearly 300 images of African Americans taken by George S. Cook (1819-1902) and Huestes P. Cook (1868-1951) primarily in the Richmond and Central Virginia area. These photographs can “tell us as much about the photographer as the photographed.” (Learn more) - American Memory presents the photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures that are part of the historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress. The learning...
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War features a timeline of America's wars, from the Revolution to Iraq. Watch an interactive presentation on each war -- slideshows and movies, text and photos, and dozens of artifacts...
- Build "visual reading" into your classroom. Design an activity that uses the Picture of the Day from one of the following websites.
- Visual Ranking Tool and Seeing Reasoning Tool: from Intel free;
- History Happenings
Locate historic photos that would be good for discussions about a particular time period. Copy and paste the photos into a PowerPoint or Appleworks presentation. How will students use the presentation? Ideas: class discussions, journal writing, answer questions, add text, sequence slides, debate issues, or describe cause/effect, before/after, or alike/differences
Picturing the Century | American Memories | Library of Congress Photo Index | Smithsonian - Photos | Prints and Photograph | Visual Archives> Mark Twain | California Museum of Photography | Northern Arizona University | [[http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/|Digtial Imaging Project | USDA Historical Photos - Science Speculations: Locate health, math, or science related photos that would be good for discussions about some aspect of science. Copy and paste the photos into a PowerPoint or Appleworks presentation. How will students use the presentation? Ideas: class discussions, journal writing, answer questions, add text, sequence slides, debate issues, or describe cause/effect, before/after, or alike/different.
- SciNetPhotos
- Microscopy - microscope photos (Another Micro site)
- NSSDC Photo Gallery
- NASA
- Science Historical Photos
- ARS Image Gallery - plants, animals, illustrations, education
- National Geographic
- Australia Weather
- Cal Photos
- Nature Gallery
- Human Anatomy
- Gray's Anatomy of a Human Body
- Maps, Satellite Photos, and Other VisualsThere are many interesting types of visuals you can use in classroom activities. Try one of the following ideas:
- Caption Puzzle:What's the real story?
- Visual and Verbal Resources for Evaluative Meaning in Political Cartoons
- The Big Picture - The site offers twelve puzzle sets. Each set challenges you with four or five jigsaw puzzles made from images found in the American Memory collections. After completing the puzzles, you will then have a chance to use what you have learned to discover the Big Picture...the theme the images in the set have in common
- How Media Literacy Supports Cultural Understanding: video describes a ML integration program in Grades 3 - 4 to promote cultural understanding between US and Middle East
Science
- Global Warming
- Create Quizes of videos -ProProfs.com tutorials
- Amazing Space consists of web-based educational presentations for young children about space, which were developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Teachers teamed up with scientists and...
- Model Lesson for interpreting photographs: simple, well organized and interdisciplinary
- Numerous Lessons for all ages
- MessageHop - Site for uploading pictures, writing about them and creating animations.
- MarQueed is a tool for organizing collections of images, sharing those collections, and discussing the images in those collections. The basic idea of MarQueed is to provide tools for highlighting elements of pictures and drawings for others to see. You can upload an image to MarQueed then draw on it or attach a text box to it. For example, if I had an image of a cell I could upload it to MarQueed then label parts of it for my students to see.
- WorldImages A collection of almost 50,000 images which have been arranged in portfolios by theme to be used for education and research. (Learn more)
- Build reading" into your classroom "visual . Design an activity that uses the Picture of the Day from one of the following websites.
- Maps, Satellite Photos, and Other Visuals. There are many interesting types of visuals you can use in classroom activities. Try one of the following ideas:
- Terraserver - satellite photos
- Atlapedia Online
- Color Landform of the US
- Earth and Moon Viewer
- Great Globe Gallery
Language Arts
- Guess the fake photos http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0104/foolery/ Ages 6 and up. Can an elephant use a giant yo-yo? Part of media literacy is understanding that not even photographs always tell the truth. Help kids learn that lesson with these wacky photos in National Geographic's Fake Photo Quiz. Kids get to look at a series of impossible-looking photos and guess if they're real or fake. A pop-window explains how the fakes were created or where the real ones were taken.
- Fake Photo sites The 15 Most Shameless //Fake Photos// Ever Passed Off as Real **...** | Top 10 Famous //Fake Photos// - The Best of Photo Manipulation | //Photo// Fun - Real or //Fake// Image Game - LIFE
- Picture Word Inductive Model. It’s an “inductive learning process where students first brainstorm twenty words related to a picture, then put those words into categories and add new ones that fit those categories. Next they complete a “cloze” (or fill-in-the-blank) activity with sentences about the picture which are then put into categories of their own. They convert those sentence categories into paragraphs, and, finally, arrange the paragraphs into essays.”
- Visual Literacy Activities
- Media Smarts, an official website dedicated to providing resources for media literacy, partnered with Companies Committed to Kids to create a list of six videos called Media Literacy 101 looking at key concepts. Each video comes with a lesson plan. Here is the introductory video and lesson plan.
- Don't Buy It- Create Your Own Ad: Provided by PBS Kids, students can play a game where they create an advertisement for a new product, "Burp Cola." Students are asked to create a slogan, image, tag line, placement of the ad, and more. Then, with the lesson plan, students are introduced to the elements of advertising. Teachers can then instruct their students to create their own print magazine advertisement and campaign to "understand that media messages and products are composed of a series of separate elements."
- Don't Buy It- Are You Plugged In?: Like the activity above, students start by playing a game provided by PBS Kids' Don't Buy It program. In the game, students take a quiz that will determine how "plugged in" they are based on the amount of time they watch television.
- Deconstruction Media
- Media Deconstruction Worksheets
- The National Art Gallery offers a series of lessons surrounding Who Am I?: Self-Portraits in Art & Writing.
- Zoom.it creates a display of your images in a format that allows you to zoom in, zoom out, and scroll around a large image.
- Zoom in on an object until you are unable to tell what it is. Have students guess the mystery object as a lesson introduction or a creative writing prompt.
- Media Analysis Tools (Library of Congress)
- Deconstructing Media Messages
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CoCo's AdverSmarts: An Interactive Unit on Food Marketing an interactive unit for students ages 5-8 to help them recognize the marketing techniques used on children's commercial Web sites
- Canva for Education site features eighteen lesson plans written by Vicki Davis, Steven Anderson, Terri Eichholz, and Paul Hamilton. The lesson plans include things like Paul's making historical infographics in which students summarize and visually represent the connections between historical events and their causes. For the elementary school crowd Terri has a lesson called Initial Selfies in which students learn to isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds. One of Steven's lesson plans calls for students to build graphics about percentages. And to take advantage of students' familiarity with Facebook, Vicki has built a lesson plan in which students build historical figure fan pages.
- Literacyhead free parts: go to Features drop-down link. Example: from the art of teaching reading. A lesson using visual art to support deep comprehension during a read-aloud with a featured picture book. The lesson includes discussion prompts around four pieces of visual art to discuss before reading, eight images from the book to support discussion during reading, and four more pieces of visual art to discuss after reading. Includes pictures related to book with questions, pictures from the book with questions. Pictures after reading the book with quest EASY to replicate with books not included at the site
- My Pop Studio - a site for teens that involves remixing images, text, music and video from magazines, TV shows, and pop music to foster critical analysis of how women are portrayed in the media.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Education Department. Online lessons, arrange visits, and posters (Each full-color, laminated, 18 x 24-inch poster presents a large image of the artwork on the front and information, looking questions, maps, and related art projects on the back. The resource book contains worksheets, interdisciplinary activities, vocabulary, and annotated book lists.)
- A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
- Eye on Idioms gr 3-6
- Photobloging ; Use this site or the concept of the site to use images as blogging topics
- Create Quizes of videos -ProProfs.com tutorials
- Model Lesson for interpreting photographs: simple, well organized and interdisciplinary
- Numerous Lessons for all ages
- Ad Generator: Generate invented slogans to remix with photos..handout on media literacy: persuasion techniques
- Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Students explore the similarities of the propaganda techniques used in the literary text and in the online political ads to explain the commentary the text is making about contemporary society. - Skitch Draw on and annotate pictures
- Says it image makers allow you to create your own funny photos and graphics - simply type in some text and choose from a few simple options. You can create your own church sign, make an official seal, have your own fire or police badge, and more. Once you've picked your options and created your image, you can use it for whatever you like - save it on your computer, upload it to ImageShack image hosting for use in blog or forum posting, or have it applied to a variety of high-quality merchandise from Zazzle.com, including stickers, mugs, keychains, and magnets.
- Nachofoto search for photos at news sites
- Using Pictures in Lessons Ideas
- Digital Poetry Create visual representations for poems, songs, book chapters, or characters. Ex. Biopoem
- Every Picture Has A Story
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Image Detective is an online media literacy activity. It’s a nice web exercise, but its process can be adapted any photo. First, the teacher or student poses a question about the photo. Next, the student identifies clues in the photo that help them answer the question. Then, the student investigates background information on the picture and/or topic it represents. Finally, the student makes his/her conclusion. The final project looks like this:My Question Is:- Clues I’ve Identified: - I am fairly confident that:- My best reasons for thinking this are: - A question this raised for me is:
- MessageHop - Site for uploading pictures, writing about them and creating animations.
- Photobloging ; Use this site or the concept of the site to use images as blogging topics
- K-5 Media Literacy lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- Middle School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- High School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- More High School Media Literacy Lessons: http://medb.byu.edu/lesson
- Comics in the Classroom
- Haiku and photography: A natural connection
This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph. - Analyzing photographs inspires visual literacy and critical thinking in students
- Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images
- Learning to look at art
Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art. -
From "Picturing America": Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech-Know It When You See It
This student interactive, from an EDSITEment lesson plan, allows students to explore Norman Rockwell's painting, "Freedom of Speech". - A picture is worth a thousand words
- A picture is worth a thousand thoughts: inquiry with Bloom’s taxonomy is the title of a very useful resource from Learn NC. It shows a photo, along with the original Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid. By clicking on each thinking level, you are shown questions about the photo reflecting the level. It’s a very simple and visual way to teach Bloom’s Taxonomy, and can easily be replicated as a student assignment in any classroom.
An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. - WRITE A PICTURE STORY: Five Card Flickr Story lets you pick five photos from a group of pre-selected images from Flickr and then write a story about them. It saves your selection and story, and provides you with a link to it. No registration is required.
- The power of a portrait
The students will use the portrait Mending Socks by Archibald Motley to explore how objects can be used to tell about a person's attributes and life. - WRITE A STORY WITH PAINTINGS: The Art of Storytelling is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. It’s extraordinarily simple, and extraordinarily accessible to any level of English Language Learner. No registration is required.
- Reading picture books
Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.Format: article - Reading picture books: resources for teachers
Illustrations, picture book finding aids, and great picture book websites. - Visual Literacy and the Net Lessons and sites for paintings and photographs
- "Government and the media commonly manipulate video and photographs using modern computer technology, raising ethical questions concerning truth and deception. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but doctoring a photo sometimes says a lot more. During the last 150 years, photographs repeatedly have been manipulated for propaganda, fraud, humor, profit and just to rewrite history" article -> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_38_16/ai_66241129
- Multiple Choice Quiz: Images used as a clue to answering questions and tap into prior knowledge.
- his lesson is for students to practice scanning images visually for details that can be seen. This lesson will focus on locating visual details and examining them within the overall context of an image.
- Reading picture books: resources for teachers
- Visual Literacy and the Net Lessons and sites for paintings and photographs
- "Government and the media commonly manipulate video and photographs using modern computer technology, raising ethical questions concerning truth and deception. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but doctoring a photo sometimes says a lot more. During the last 150 years, photographs repeatedly have been manipulated for propaganda, fraud, humor, profit and just to rewrite history" article -> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_38_16/ai_66241129
- Multiple Choice Quiz: Images used as a clue to answering questions and tap into prior knowledge.
- PicLits
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches images with selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Consider using with an interactive whiteboard. - Scanning for Visual Details - The purpose of this lesson is for students to practice scanning images visually for details that can be seen. This lesson will focus on locating visual details and examining them within the overall context of an image.
- Better Learning and Expressing of Learning through Visual Literacy
- Bubblr: quickly find pictures on flikr and add captions extra tutorial
- Picture This: visual learning activities
- Images as Persuasion - The purpose of this lesson is to teach students that images can function as a means of persuasion. This lesson will focus on how images can be used to convey messages that may influence an audience. Students will also learn that an image's message or meaning may depend on from what perspective it is coming and on how it is being framed, be it using captions, cropping the image to accentuate a certain part, etc.
- Art of Persuasion (PBS: How Art Made The World) handout on media literacy: persuasion techniques
- Images as Persuasion (other plans)
- Change My Mind - Multimedia resources with teacher guide and videos for 8-10 grades that teaches the persuasive writing process
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Speechable - How many words are your pictures worth? This site allows you to upload a picture and then a unique URL is created where students can add their own comments. A great way to encourage writing!
- Visual LIteracy Toolbox: HIgh School Activities
- Tseng Kwong Chi Collection Educator's Guide complements study in many subject areas, including social studies, language arts, art, photography, American studies, Asian American studies, architecture, geography, and history. Suggested issues include the definition of national identity and stereotyping of "outsiders," how art forms are influenced by popular culture, and the "truthfulness" of a portrait photograph.
- Resources for teaching with photographs
Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use. - Teaching with disturbing images
Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used - Build "visual reading" into your classroom. Design an activity that uses the Picture of the Day from one of the following websites.
- Visual Ranking Tool and Seeing Reasoning Tool: from Intel free
- MarQueed is a tool for organizing collections of images, sharing those collections, and discussing the images in those collections. The basic idea of MarQueed is to provide tools for highlighting elements of pictures and drawings for others to see. You can upload an image to MarQueed then draw on it or attach a text box to it. For example, if I had an image of a cell I could upload it to MarQueed then label parts of it for my students to see.
- My Pop Studio in the Classroom: Learn how teachers used the interactive play experience, My Pop Studio, to promote media literacy in Grades 7 - 8
- How Media Literacy Supports Cultural Understanding: video describes a ML integration program in Grades 3 - 4 to promote cultural understanding between US and Middle East
- Assignment Media Literacy: comprehensive ML curriculum with print PDF lessons and video support materials) for K-12, developed by Renee Hobbs and the Maryland Department of Education with the Discovery Channel
Beyond Beats and Rhymes : See what a staff development program looks like to help high school communication arts teachers explore how to bring critical reflection on the representation of gender and identity in hip-hop music videos, based on the Bryon Hurt documentary of the same title. - In the recent Florida Times-Union article "Teacher Helps Mandarin's Gottlieb School Earn Best Buy Grant," awardee Andrea Hernandez shares her view that "in a digitized world of graphics and instant video and photos, you just have to be visually literate." This week's Ideas provide some resources for using film to support the visual literacy activities that the article calls for.
- The Language Arts article "Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom" (E) argues that elementary language arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional resource. The article notes that today's elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films -- prior experiences which teachers can tap into -- and discusses the application of reader-response theories to film.
- Based on the above Language Arts article, the ReadWriteThink.org lesson Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies (Elem) asks students to compare and contrast books with their movie counterparts and then work in groups to design a readers theater response to the film version.
- Ask students to play the role of moviemakers with techniques from the Voices from the Middle article "Meeting Readers: Using Visual Literacy Narratives in the Classroom" (M). The article describes a literacy narrative project -- a concise digital video in which students meld still images, motion, print text, and soundtrack in communicating ideas/insights/discoveries about who they are as readers and writers.
- Students take on the role of film director in the ReadWriteThink.org lesson
You Know the Movie Is Coming -- Now What? (M). After exploring cinematic terms, students read a literary work with a director's eyes, considering such issues as which scenes require a close-up of the main character and when the camera should zoom out to see the entire set. - The English Journal article "How Movies Work for Secondary School Students with Special Needs" (S) demonstrates how to use scenes from films to help special education students improve their visual and auditory skills, build confidence in their abilities to talk about and analyze the components of a narrative, and feel comfortable engaging in writing and class discussion.
- In the ReadWriteThink.org lesson Decoding The Matrix: Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film (S), students view and analyze clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films to gain an understanding of the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
- Research has shown that contemporary popular films are a valuable resource in the ESL classroom, but what about older films? The Teaching English in the Two-Year College article "Unspoken Content: Silent Film in the ESL Classroom" (C) explores how overlooked silent films can facilitate the development of ESL students' critical thinking and writing skills.
- Teacher educators can challenge students to explore how educators are represented in movies and television shows. Share the English Journal article "Teaching English in the World: All I Need to Know about Teaching I Learned from TV and Movies" (S-TE) with preservice teachers and ask them to film their own revised versions of the real life of teachers in the classroom. Encourage discussion of ways to counter flawed visions of the profession locally and at state and national levels.
Math
- Bend it Like Bianca Learn how to compare distances between objects, and explore motion and forces. In this video clip from Cyberchase, Bianca uses geometric and spatial reasoning and knowledge about forces to help her soccer team score goals. gr 3-5
- Three Men and a Balloon Understand the basic principles of visual perspective and use visual perspective to estimate and calculate distance. gr 6-12
- Can You Fill It? Practice volume estimation skills by estimating the least number of pours from different sized containers of water that are necessary to exactly fill a large container without spilling over. gr 3-6
- Estimation Exploration Practice estimating skills and observation by visually comparing a group of ten objects to an unknown number of the same object. Check your estimation by counting k-2
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The Demise of the Great American Frontier: Westward Spread of American population from 1790 to 1900 Examine maps created by Frederick Jackson Turner and census data showing the end of the frontier in the early 19th century. Display visual data by developing a series of shaded maps using census data to show the moving frontier gr 6-12
- Math In the Media This site is designed to be used by middle school math teachers. The goal is to get students interested in math using "real world examples. (6-8)
- 101 Questions on which he is sharing images and videos as prompts for developing math questions.
Art/Media
- Visual Literacy Activities
NGAkids Art Zone is a free iPad app from the National Gallery of Art. The app is designed to help elementary school and middle school students explore art through eight interactive activities. After students open the app they can scroll through a gallery of paintings and drawings. Double-tapping on a drawing or painting will open an interactive activity in which students can modify the original work. Modification of a selected work takes place through sketching and or adding elements selected from a gallery of modifications. Students can save each work in the app or save it to the camera roll on an iPad.
- Create Quizes of videos -ProProfs.com tutorials
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Education Department. Online lessons, arrange visits, and posters (Each full-color, laminated, 18 x 24-inch poster presents a large image of the artwork on the front and information, looking questions, maps, and related art projects on the back. The resource book contains worksheets, interdisciplinary activities, vocabulary, and annotated book lists.)
- Zoom.it creates a display of your images in a format that allows you to zoom in, zoom out, and scroll around a large image.
- Model Lesson for interpreting photographs: simple, well organized and interdisciplinary
- Numerous Lessons for all ages
- Using Pictures in Lessons Ideas
- Every Picture Has A Story
- MessageHop - Site for uploading pictures, writing about them and creating animations.
- Photobloging ; Use this site or the concept of the site to use images as blogging topics
- Genius of Photography (BBC series)
- Literacyhead free parts: go to Features drop-down link. Example: from the art of teaching reading. A lesson using visual art to support deep comprehension during a read-aloud with a featured picture book. The lesson includes discussion prompts around four pieces of visual art to discuss before reading, eight images from the book to support discussion during reading, and four more pieces of visual art to discuss after reading. Includes pictures related to book with questions, pictures from the book with questions. Pictures after reading the book with quest EASY to replicate with books not included at the site
- K-5 Media Literacy lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- Middle School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- High School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- More High School Media Literacy Lessons: http://medb.byu.edu/lesson
- K-5 Media Literacy lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- Middle School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- High School Media Literacy Lessons: Six units of downloadable lessons
- More High School Media Literacy Lessons: http://medb.byu.edu/lesson
- Learning to look at art
Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art. From "Picturing America": Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech-Know It When You See It
This student interactive, from an EDSITEment lesson plan, allows students to explore Norman Rockwell's painting, "Freedom of Speech".- A picture is worth a thousand words
An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. - Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
- Science and Math Art Connections
Teacher Vision Art and Math - Great activities and lessons that allow Art to be integrated into the Math curriculum.
NPR Where Science Meets Art - Some exceptional podcasts integrating Science and Art.
Arts Edge - A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
New York Times Learning Network - Blog produced by NY times that has some great lessons including Art Integration
National Gallery Kid Zone - Loads of interactive Art tools that can be used for math, science, and engineering occasions
Exploratorium - Take a look at the entire site, but especially explore the Art related material
Science and More To Music - What a wonderful collection of MP3 songs written and performed by Dr. Lodge McCammon. Have kids perform to music using Flip Cameras and digital still cameras
Edsitement - I include this site from the National Endowment for the Humanities because of its vast collection of Art related resources aimed at the Social Studies and Language Arts areas. When doing an interdisciplinary unit with Math and Science one may find a good tie in from this excellent resource.
- The power of a portrait
The students will use the portrait Mending Socks by Archibald Motley to explore how objects can be used to tell about a person's attributes and life. - Visual Literacy and the Net Lessons and sites for paintings and photographs
- "Government and the media commonly manipulate video and photographs using modern computer technology, raising ethical questions concerning truth and deception. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but doctoring a photo sometimes says a lot more. During the last 150 years, photographs repeatedly have been manipulated for propaganda, fraud, humor, profit and just to rewrite history" article -> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_38_16/ai_66241129
- Multiple Choice Quiz: Images used as a clue to answering questions and tap into prior knowledge.
- My Pop Studio in the Classroom: Learn how teachers used the interactive play experience, My Pop Studio, to promote media literacy in Grades 7 - 8
- PicLits
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches images with selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Consider using with an interactive whiteboard. - Scanning for Visual Details - The purpose of this lesson is for students to practice scanning images visually for details that can be seen. This lesson will focus on locating visual details and examining them within the overall context of an image.
- Structural Comparisons The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to scan images visually to look for structural elements within the picture's composition, such as foreground and background, symmetry and asymmetry, motion and tone. The lesson, like "Scanning for Visual Details," focuses on looking more closely at an image's structure rather than its content.
- Tseng Kwong Chi Collection Educator's Guide complements study in many subject areas, including social studies, language arts, art, photography, American studies, Asian American studies, architecture, geography, and history. Suggested issues include the definition of national identity and stereotyping of "outsiders," how art forms are influenced by popular culture, and the "truthfulness" of a portrait photograph.
- Resources for teaching with photographs
Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use. - Teaching with disturbing images
Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used - Interactive Fine Arts
- ArtGames
Kids ages 4-12 can learn the building blocks of art and creativity through this interactive website from Albright-Knox. Kids can learn about portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, color, and materials. They can also create their own works in the interactive studio... (Learn more) - Go West, Young Artist
In this interactive game you get to go on a journey back in time and head out West to learn about painting landscapes. You choose your own art supplies and pick where you want to go. Along the way you will meet some famous artists and learn about the art of... (Learn more)Format: website/activity - WebExhibits
Studying connections between art and science through interactive arts activities and informative pages. (Learn more) - WorldImages
A collection of almost 50,000 images which have been arranged in portfolios by theme to be used for education and research. (Learn more) - Art Antics
Locate photos of artwork that would be good for discussions about some aspect of art. Copy and paste the photos into a PowerPoint or Appleworks presentation. How will students use the presentation? Ideas: class discussions, journal writing, answer questions, add text, sequence slides, debate issues, or describe cause/effect, before/after, or alike/different.- Thinker: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- AMIC - biggest organization, join as a trial member
- Yahoo Gallery - search by artist
- Do a search for an artist or work of art using Google.
- Smarthistory - Art teachers and students will want to spend some time visiting Smart History. It includes more than two hundred artworks and one hundred and fifty videos and podcasts. All those resources are organized thematically, by style, by artist, and by time period.
- How Media Literacy Supports Cultural Understanding: video describes a ML integration program in Grades 3 - 4 to promote cultural understanding between US and Middle East
- Assignment Media Literacy:
comprehensive ML curriculum with print PDF lessons and video support
materials) for K-12, developed by Renee Hobbs and the Maryland
Department of Education with the Discovery Channel
Beyond Beats and Rhymes : See what a staff development program looks like to help high school communication arts teachers explore how to bring critical reflection on the representation of gender and identity in hip-hop music videos, based on the Bryon Hurt documentary of the same title.