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Website
Other

U.washington: The Basics of Poster Design

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth site from the University of Washington on poster design and communicating ideas through various visual media. This site covers standard posters but also contains links for creating poster with Adobe PageMaker and Microsoft...
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Graphic
University of Maryland

University of Maryland: For All the World to See: Emory Douglas

For Students 9th - 10th
Emory Douglas led a graphic visual campaign expressing the story of the Black Panther Party.
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Interactive
Other

Tagxedo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Season Mandala

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Symbolism in Visual Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief essay on visual symbolism in literature and art. Provides examples and nice images. Shows that visual images can have the same type of symbolism as literary works.