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Handout
PBS

Art21: Ann Hamilton

For Students 9th - 10th
Hamilton's art installations often combine soundtracks with cloth, filmed footage, organic materials, and objects. She is also interested in verbal and written language and works with photographs and performance.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pictures Please: Traveling Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, students learn that light travels in a straight line from a light source and that ray diagrams help us understand how an image will be created by a lens. In the accompanying activity, students explore the...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Photography: Past to Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In the lesson, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Kodak: Language Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Create a Pinhole Camera

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students construct their own pinhole camera to observe the behavior of light.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Light Through a Pinhole

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the diagram provided, calculate where a ray of light coming through a pinhole hits an image plane.
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Unknown Type
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Effect of Focal Distance

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a simulation of a pinhole camera, try capturing images using different focal distances, and then answer the questions below.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Circle of Confusion Diagram

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the diagram we have created to calculate the radius of a circle of confusion.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Circle of Confusion Calculation

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how we can calculate the radius of a circle of confusion
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Pringles Pinhole

For Students 3rd - 8th
Simple directions to make a pinhole camera from a pringles can! Try this experiment. You'll be surprised at what you find.
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Activity
Other

Personal Site: Oatmeal Box Pinhole Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever thought about making a pinhole camera from an oatmeal box? This fascinating personal site gives directions, with photo examples.