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Let's Meet The Presidents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create a digital movie documenting research about an American President. Using internet sources, students with special needs gather information about their chosen president. Working in groups, they use this information to create a...
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Badges of Pride

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate jobs and how people identify with their job.  In this labor instructional activity, 5th graders create a book from illustrations of various jobs. Students read an article about labor and answer questions about...
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Frank Sadorus Collection: Photographic Family Tree Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students collect and place photographs of their parents, grandparents, etc., in a family tree-like chart or positioned by generation. They find out more about the occupations and lives of their ancestors.
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Biography Report- Learning Microsoft Word

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn how to use Microsoft Word. In this biography lesson, students participate in mini-lessons on key features of Microsoft Word and then use it to write a multi-part biography report.
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Migrant Workers Through the Lens of Dorothea Lange

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression. In this Great Depression lesson, students examine photographs and song lyrics to gain an understanding of the conditions for people living in the era. Students...
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Monochromatic Photo Painting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use Photoshop to manipulate a digital photograph. They mix and paint a full range of values demonstrating care of materials and craftsmanship in painting. Color relationship is examined using copyright free images.
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Seeing Eye "Buddies"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a variety of sights within their schoolyard habitat and sitting quietly back-to-back with a partner describe what they see. The partner sketches the observations, 3rd graders compare drawings with the object described.
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How the Light Bulb Gets Switched On - The Evolution of Ideas

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils discuss how people are influenced by their cultures and backgrounds, make artwork that documents creative process, write character sketch of Colonel Massey from different points of view, examine issue from different perspectives...
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Hero Holiday and Portfolio Completed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars summarize the unit on heroes and present picture books to younger students.  In this hero lesson, young scholars compile their portfolios, in which they have presented heroic characteristics of their own classmates. ...
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Promoting Reading Posters

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students create a series of large posters to encourage reading on the campus. In this reading posters lesson, students use a camera to take pictures of students reading in order to promote reading on their campus. Students use digital...
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Using Photographs and Models for Drawings

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners make drawings of their classmates in photographs.
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Sculpture - Textures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students distinguish between 2D and 3D elements in Escobar's work, explore assemblage, and identify the feelings expressed in Escobar's sculpture.
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Civil War: Matthew Brady Photos

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read background information on Matthew Brady and examine photographs of the Civil War taken by him. They fill in worksheets based on their research.
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V.I.P.

For Teachers K - 12th
Students complete interviews of their classmates. Throughout the school year each student is interviewed by the teacher and their peers. Answers to interview questions are complied along with a photograph and placed in a PowerPoint...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students 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...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Look at Me!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...

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