#6: High School Social Studies/Language Arts

Lesson Title: Can You Trust Photographs?

Level: High School Media Studies - Language Arts, Journalism, Social Studies, Writing, and Technology

Lesson Objective:  Using small groups, individual lists, or whole class discussion, and using the PBS broadcast: "American Photography: A Century of Images" as a guide, students will select historical examples of photographs where the photographer deliberately changed the image or created an artificial scene to photograph. Using these examples, students will analyze the motivation behind these changes, and discuss occasions when manipulation would be acceptable and when it would not. They will try their hand at photograph digital manipulation, and create guidelines to determine a photograph's credibility. Students will write a story about a single incident which is personally important to them. They will collect images from home or other source to illustrate the story, construct a storyboard using the images to illustrate a short outline, write a rough draft at their desks, type the final draft in the computer lab, and assemble the story with the images into a stapled short book.

Technology: PBS video, Newseum.com,  and other web sources, and software such as PhotoShop

Which Stage of Teaching with Technology does this lesson illustrate?