National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Learners 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...
PBS
Pbs: American Photography: A Century of Images
The companion site to the PBS series, this site chronicles the growth of photography, both in our private lives and in the public world of news and journalism. The site includes narrative from the series as well as images and teaching...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students 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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Image Compression
Compare the strengths and weaknesses of different digital image formats. How does the amount of compression affect a JPEG image? What happens when you save a JPEG image multiple times?
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
Other
Big Huge Labs: Fd's Flickr Toys
A massive collection of free tools of interest to teachers and others who need to quickly and easily make customized "stuff" using digital photos. Create cool effects like Warhol and Hockney at the touch of a button. Great to use with...
Other
Underwater Photography
"The most visited site for underwater photography since 1996." A great reference tool for equipment, images and information. There is an online photo course, equipment for sale, video, etc.
Other
Center for Civil War Photography
At the online home of the Center for Civil War Photography view reproductions of Civil War photographs, enhanced digital images, and other center exhibitions. With related information about the photographic processes in use at the time...
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: Spotting Sounds All Around
This is both a hands-on and technology based activity where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students to...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Color Saturation
Lively, vivid colors can add pizzazz and turn a dull photo into a work of art. Learn how changing the saturation levels of the colors in your photo can really make it pop.
NASA
Nasa: How to Make Your Own Eye Popping 3 D Pictures
Anyone with a digital camera, photo-editing software, and a pair of floppy 3-D glasses can make 3-D pictures out of their photographs by following these instructions.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff
In this project you'll learn about how digital image files are encoded, and how digital images can be compressed so that the files take up less storage space and can be transmitted more quickly. You will also measure the quality of...
EL Education
El Education: Chickenology: The Art and Science of Keeping Chickens
This manual was written by a group of middle school and high school students in the Maplewood Richmond Heights school district. The students, known as the "Chickenologists", care for the district's flock of chickens. This comprehensive...
Other
Photoshop Cafe
A site that focuses on Adobe Photoshop tricks and techniques. There are many image examples, tips, and tutorials!
Other
Planet Photoshop
A tutorial and resource for learning Adobe Photoshop techniques and real-world uses.
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Cardinal Directions in the Classroom
If you have access to Kidspiration or a similar program you can use this lesson plan to help teach the cardinal directions. Incorporate digital photography as an expansion idea or create more expansions of your own.
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Iste Nets: Creating a Heroic Character (Lesson Plan)
This lesson sequence, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to develop a fully realized heroic character and then, through the use of multimedia software, communicate that hero's...
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures
Students will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
Other
Galaxy Photography and Digital Imaging
A site for images and how to take images of the night sky. Backed by Meade, a maker of telescopes. Good information on equipment and techniques as well.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Empire That Was Russia, Photographic Record Recreated
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Topography of Fruit
This is an attempt to help learners understand contour lines in map-making through the vector of digital photography. This hands-on activity will create an art piece out of fruit that will be analyzed to create topographic maps.
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Family Heritage
Students bring in an object from home that represents their family heritage. Students then use cameras and scanners to import their object into the computer. The lesson has the students complete a writing piece but you could expand into...