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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for learners of all levels.
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Article
Other

Western Illinois University: Thinking Visually and Evaluating Visuals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Tears in Rain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[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.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Graphic
TES Global

Tes: Romeo and Juliet: Lovers Gallery

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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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Website
Other

Center for Media Literacy: The Power of Images

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will teach you how to evaluate texts for the clarity of their graphics and for their visual appeal.
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Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
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Graphic
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a House

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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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Activity
Other

Digital Visual Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Lesson Two: Creating Great Images (Of People) for Video

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.