Visual Literacy: Lesson Plans
For Purchase: Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism Curriculum
(links in red are newest additions)
- Analyzing Visual Images (Facing History)
- An American Century of Photography (teacher guide)
- DoubleTake Teacher Guide/Lesson Plans
- Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across The Curriculum
- Teacher’s Guide to Making Student Movies (Scholastic)
- Visual literacy exercises
- Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images (Activity lesson plans)
- Visual literacy resources (numerous)
- Visual literacy unit for grades 7-8
- Visual studies wiki
Lesson Plans:
- Analyzing Photographs From Theory to Practice
- Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
- Analyzing Visuals In Print (Grade 12, McDougal Littell)
- A Lens Into The Past (Grades 3-4, ArtsEdge)
- A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
- The Art of Language: Visual Literacy & Descriptive Writing
- A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
- Cartoons For The Classroom
- Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
- Critical Lenses: Looking Closely At Photographs (worksheet)
- CLICK: (Smithsonian Photography Initiative)
Lesson 1 examines the role photographs play in representing ourselves and our communities.
Lesson 2 asks students to explore the concept of celebrity and the role photography plays.
Lesson 3 students closely examine four photos representing important steps in the history of the medium. - Development of Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacy (modules)
- Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography (Read, Write, Think)
- Digital manipulation of images: is seeing believing?
- Every Picture Has A Story: History Through Primary Sources (Smithsonian)
- Digital visual literacy modules
- Engaging Students With Primary Sources (photos,pg 24)
- Explaining The Image (worksheet)
- Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide /Part Two
- George Eastman Discovery Kits:
African Americans: Black History through Photography
Photographers of the American West
Animation: Illusion of Motion
The Civil War Through Photography
George Eastman: Father of Popular Photography
Photographs of the Great Depression
Inventors in Imaging Technologies
Lewis Hine: Immigration and the Progressive Era
Beyond the Image: Depicting Native Americans
Bringing the War Home: American Photography during World War II
Shapes and Shelters: Architecture and Photography - Great Depression, The New Deal and the Media
- Historical Literacy: the more you look, the more you see
- A House Divided: Civil War Photography
- How To Analyze A Photograph
- How to Analyze a Photograph
- How to analyze images as text
- Images as Persuasion (other plans)
- Images In Action
- Images of The West
- Infographics
- Infographics: Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
- Investigating Images (worksheet, page 3)
- Making Sense of Documentary Photography
- Math & Photography
- Media Analysis Tools (Library of Congress)
- Media Literacy: Analyzing Visual Images (Facing History & Ourselves)
- Media Literacy: The Big Picture
- The People’s Choice: Digital Imagery and the Art of Persuasion
- Photo Ethics (Newseum)
- Photography: Photo Essay; Digital Storytelling (Adobe Youth Essentials)
- Photography Changes What We Want (Smithsonian)
- Photography Changes Who We Are (Smithsonian)
- Picture This: Building Photo Based Writing Activities (NYT)
- Picture This: Looking & Telling- Take A Good Look
- Picture This: Photographs
- Picturing History: Analyzing & Researching Primary Source Images (AASL)
- Political Cartoons In The Classroom (Apple)
- Reading Editorial Cartoons (Scholastic)
- Reading Historical Photographs
- Reading Media Photographs
- Reading Pictures: A Text Set For Teaching Media Literacy
- Reading the Visual Images in Black Ships and Samurai
- Reading Visual Images (several units)
- Reading Images: compositional analysis (worksheet) The People’s Choice
- Re:View
- SC Photo: School Curriculum For Photography
- Teaching Educators About Media Project
- Teaching Photography: Handouts & Videos
- The People’s Choice: Digital Imagery & The Art of Persuasion
- Understanding Infographics
- Using Movies to Improve Visual Literacy
- Vid Kids
- Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum (Aperture)
- Visuals In The News
- Visual literacy & media studies (Australia/curriculum)
- Visual literacy: ending hunger
- Visual Literacy: Primary Sources for The Classroom
- Visual Literacy Toolbox: activity plans; online activities
- A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
- Visual Storytelling: Telling A Story Through Photography
- War Image Analysis
- What Makes A Picture Perfect?
- You Oughta Be in Pictures: An Introduction to Making Videos