Teach Photography? Try These 22 Sites For Lessons and Resources

PHOTOGRAPHY

21 Photography Lesson Plans- from PBS 

100 Ways to Use a Digital Camera

 

Ansel Adams Photography Lesson

The Basics of Photography Lesson Plan 

 

A Beginner's Guide to Digital Cameras- learn about pixels, aspect ratio, types of graphics formats, memory and digital/optical zooms. 

Digital Camera Sites

Digital Imaging

Digital Photography Tutorials 

Every Picture Has a Story Lesson Plan- from Smithsonian 

Exploring Photographs Lesson Plans- from the J.P.Getty Museum

How to Take Great Group Photos- 12 excellent tips are listed here with a photo example for each one

HP Learning Center- sign up for free and take all 16 classes if you like; great resource!

Online Exhibitions from the Center for Fine Art Photography- inspire your students

Photo Essay Lesson Plan 
 
The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Lesson Plan 

Photographing Life's Images Lesson Plan 

Photography Portfolio Lesson Plan

Photography Resources

Sports Photography Techniques- excellent and complete site with step-by-step information on shooting sports. You can view many sample shots taken for a school newspaper.

Ten Tips for Great Pictures- from Kodak; excellent!

Using Photography to Enhance a Story 
 
Using Photography to Help Save the Oceans - from National Geographic

The ABCs of Web Literacy

The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Libraries have designed a super interactive tutorial on web literacy. The step-by-step tutorial covers five areas: authority, accuracy, bias, currency and coverage. Students using this guide will be able to properly evaluate a website and decide whether or not to trust the information on it.




Here are some other resources to help evaluate a website:
Evaluating Web Pages Pathfinder
Evaluating Websites: Criteria and Tools
Kathy Schrock's ABCs of Website Evaluation

Evaluating Websites For Learners

View more presentations from Maggie Verster

Easy Way to Create a How-to-Do Page

Set up your lesson, email your link and your page is ready to go! Here's a sample tutorial on creating a Google Form.