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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCapturing Light: The Science of Photography (Intermediate Level)
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing ArtsStudents create pinhole cameras to learn how artists manipulate light to make photographs. They describe and analyze a ninetee...Contributor: California Department of EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocumentary Photography: Photography and Choreography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual ArtsLesson in which students engage in visual and written activities that support the creative process of choreographing a solo danc...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocumentary Photography: Civil Rights Through Image and Text
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson in which students learn how image and text helped define the social and psychological mood of the civil rights movement i...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLand Use and Lawmaking in California (Beginning Level)
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson comparing uses of land in California -- how images can influence government -- write letters about environmental issues t...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFlawed Democracies, Human Rights (Intermediate Level)
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionLesson in which students read primary source documents and examine photographs related to U.S. internment of Japanese Americans ...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFlawed Democracies, Human Rights (Beginning Level)
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson in which students learn about U.S. internment camps during World War Two through photographs, and draw about life in an i...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is Work and Who Are the Workers? (Advanced Level)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual ArtsStudents will keep a photographer's journal and create a photograph of a worker faced with difficult conditions.Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Many Different Sides of War (Intermediate Level)
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson in which students compare and contrast artworks depicting different viewpoints about war and write captions to describe w...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLand Use and Lawmaking in California (Advanced Level)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson examining photographs of suburban development -- land use and design a plan for a utopian, environmentally-friendly housi...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLand Use and Lawmaking in California (Intermediate Level)
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsLesson in which students discuss principles of transcendentalism and create photographic essays depicting an environmental issueContributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Art and Depiction of Dance, Intermediate
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual ArtsStudents will study axial and locomotor movements in a drawing and photograph of dancers, analyzing elements, and then take phot...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Art and Accessibility of Music, Advanced
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual ArtsLesson in which students learn about jazz singer Billie Holiday and the sociohistorical context in which she performed and the e...Contributor: The GettyViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnsel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Portraits, views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities.Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Every Picture Tells a Story
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsLesson plan that focuses on important steps in the development of photography in the nineteenth century. Students make observati...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThen, Now and Tomorrow
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsActivity in which students will use photographs to research the history of the New York’s Lower East Side and to predict the fut...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Nineteenth-Century Family Portraits: Looking into Home, Sweet Home (1988)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan in which students analyze portraits for an idea of the family structure that was changing with industrialization, ur...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSouth Africa 1936-1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World GeographyOnline exhibition detailing the history and culture of South Africa through photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee. Includes d...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIn and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, World GeographyOnline exhibition presenting a portrayal of Central Africa under colonial rule in photographs taken by Euro-American and Africa...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsOnline exhibition showcasing masterpieces of 20th-century portraiture from the National Portrait Gallery's drawing collections. ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrontier Photographer: Edward Curtis
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts, Native PeoplesOnline exhibition on the photos of frontier photographer Edward Curtis. His work was an attempt to capture images of American In...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0