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Harvest Happenings
Students explore the history of agriculture and develop a personal connection to agriculture. Students investigate how farming practices have evolved through the years and create poetry relating to harvest.
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Smiling Flowers Bulletin Board
Learners create paper plate flowers using basic art supplies, digital pictures of themselves, and "stems and leaves" in this Art-based lesson that incorporates digital technology. The lesson is ideal for use during the spring months.
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Pilgrims in Style
Learners explore the Pilgrims and their clothing. They discuss current trends in fashion and complete a Venn diagram comparing the Pilgrim attire to present day clothing and research websites regarding the Pilgrims. After researching,...
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Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school project.
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Navigating With Explorers
Students retrace the steps of European explorers to the New World and recreate the early exploration through online research and multimedia presentations. In this world history and technology lesson, students research early explorations...
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Picturing a Story: Photo Essay About a Community, Event, or Issue
Learners research Dorothea Lange's documentary projects and create their own photo essay about a subject. In this photo essay lesson, students analyze examples of social-documentary photographs of Lange. Learners define a social...
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Student Photographs and Suburbia
Third graders read photographs for information and discuss reactions. They take pictures of several sites or topics that depict change, tension, historic sites or community icons. They choose one to describe, mount and label.
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Photographic Links
Pupils in any grade level review photographs taken by Canadian artists. They complete different activties based on their age and practice looking at the world through a camera lens. They also complete self-portraits at the secondary level.
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Dorothea Lange
Students explain that a person's experiences influence their life, write a time line of their life, and analyze Dorothea's photographs and list descriptive words.
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Cinco De Mayo
Middle schoolers investigate the historical background of the holiday of Cinco de Mayo. They complete a word search, explore various websites, and create a pinata that is papered with facts about the holiday.
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Make a Pinhole Camera
Young scholars explore the ability of light to project images by making and using a pinhole camera.
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This Is Our Town
Students use digital cameras to document their community through the use of photographs, artwork and writing. They create a community tribute book that includes essays, artwork and pictures. Afterwards, they debate the benefits and...
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Looking Through Time
Second graders research their local history and create a books program.
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Photographs as an Artist's Tool
Learners learn about Eakins use of photography as a tool for painting. They apply use of photography in their own painting or drawing. They incorporate time of day, composition and positioning of human subject in their own painting or...
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Exploring Indiana: Tales, Timelines, and Trivia
Students record timelines of Indiana history and include events from their own personal history on it. After using various research sources, the record their timelines using the Timeliner software application. They share their timelines...
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Wisconsin Historical Events Calendar
Fourth graders create a calendar of historical events and people in Wisconsin. They select a month of the year and research events and people using the Internet and other resources. They collect their research and create a reencactment...
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Carrollton-A Study Skills Pictorial Activity Book
Fifth graders in teams select various areas of local craftwork they want to research. They are trained in photography and interviewing techniques, research the historical and current status of the craft, and interview and photograph...
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Fort Morgan, Colorado - 100 Years of Progress and Promise
Students discover and practice interviewing skills by role-playing. They utilize these techniques while discussing the history of Fort Morgan with senior citizens who came to the school and with those whom they visited in the local...
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Research Lesson on the Dust Bowl
Eleventh graders connect art (photographs) to the historical period and conjecture about conditions during this era in American history, sharing ideas in class discussion. Each student completes a project on a period depicted in one of...
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The Study of the Spanish-Speaking People of Texas: Daily Life
Learners analyze the different ways that photography helps historians understand the lives of people who lived in the past. They examine images from Russell Lee's photo essay and discuss how Texas' has changed from an agrarian to an...
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Native Chili Planting
Students discover the process of planting chili. After comparing two types of seeds students plant and with the use of a digital camera, record the seed progress. When ready for transplant, students take young plants to a retirement...
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Exploring Photographs - Writing the Artist's Statement
Students read an artist's statement by Dorothea Lange and write a statement based on their own photographs. For this photograph and writing lesson, students examine the relationship between photography and the artist's statement....
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Take a Ride on the Underground Railroad
Learners explore the issues of American slavery, the abolitionist movements, and the pursuit of freedom that is found in art, literature, and music from that period in American history. Students determine the major personalities that...
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Glad to Meet You, Newfane
Learners brainstorm a list of important community locations or buildings. We take pictures of inside and outside and include the history of each. They describe the service or product it provides, the date originated, etc. They build a...