ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for learners of all levels.
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Western Illinois University: Thinking Visually and Evaluating Visuals
This site explores: "An Attitude/Preparing a Frame of Mind," "Thinking Visually: Being First, Doing Second," and "Evaluating Visuals." Click on each to get detailed information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tears in Rain
The goal of this activity is for students to develop visual literacy. They learn how images are manipulated for a powerful effect and how a photograph can make the invisible (pollutants that form acid rain) visible (through the damage...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal
Authors add visuals to get your attention, set the tone, or make a point. Sometimes they are successful; sometimes not. This lesson will teach you how to evaluate texts for the clarity of their graphics and for their visual appeal....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of the graphical components. You will also learn to evaluate graphics on how well they do what they are intended to do.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to evaluate the clarity and visual appeal of images and other graphic elements included in a reading text. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites
Learn how to "test before you trust" the sites and information found on the Web in this lesson plan and student handout from Common Sense Education. Assessing what you find on the Web is an essential skill for today's students. Use this...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
TES Global
Tes: Romeo and Juliet: Lovers Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of images of Romeo and Juliet during the balcony scene of various productions which can be used to compare interpretation and spark discussion. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
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Center for Media Literacy: The Power of Images
Web-article that looks at images and their power to persuade. Several myths are explored and their relationship to the images in popular culture are discussed.
Library of Congress
Loc: Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
A series of questions guides students as they view, decipher, and analyze the contents of a photo taken during the Civil War. Organized into six sections to help students look closely at its details, this single photo will aid students...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal
This lesson will teach you how to evaluate texts for the clarity of their graphics and for their visual appeal.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell
Exhibition featuring Norman Rockwell paintings from the collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg explores the relationship between the iconic images of American life and the movies. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a House
Make a House is an activity for early elementary age children. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students will also exercise visual spatial skills while positioning the...
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Digital Visual Analysis
When we engage in digital visual analysis, we can come to understand how the various elements within a digital visual image work together to create a persuasive message. Learn how to analyze an image to get as much information as you can...
PBS
Pbs: Lesson Two: Creating Great Images (Of People) for Video
Students will learn the basic concepts necessary to produce beautiful, professional looking visual compositions (which can then be used in professional television productions). 2nd of 3 lessons.