This guide is designed to promote discussion of any photograph with students, whether encountered in the classroom, in textbooks, or in other school materials. The guide contains a one-page handout which uses Dorothea Lange's photograph "White Angel Breadline" to discuss 10 photographic elements: aesthetic elements, punctum, title,…

This document is designed to provide teachers and students with a working knowledge of 35mm photography. Topics include Film Types and Filters, Camera and Lenses, Photomicrography, and the Darkroom. The Appendices contain science activities and projects for both teachers and students and a Bibliography provides additional sources of information.…

The Highland High School (Salt Lake City, Utah) vocational television production program was designed to provide students with marketable skills in color television studio operation. Among the skills covered in the program were camera set-up and operation, video engineering, production switching, directing, television lighting, audio engineering,…

This book discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of writing and producing a high school or college newspaper. Contents include "Slug...Fourth Estate,""A Short History of the Press,""Who Does What,""Style and Policy,""Covering the Story,""The News Story,""Other Articles,""Preparing Copy,""Planning the…

Developed as part of a high school quinmester unit on yearbook editing, this guide provides the teacher with strategies for teaching a course designed to train student editors in developing a plan for the book, emphasizing the importance of the yearbook as a permanent document. Students apply this philosophy in planning a theme and in insuring…

This book is designed to solve the problem of coordinating art and typography with content in publications. Through text and illustrations, this book suggests ways to make pages and spreads in magazines, newspapers, and books attractive and readable. As a book of techniques, it is directed at potential and practicing art directors, designers, and…

Highlights four workshops held at the Seventh Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (Stillwater, Oklahoma 1982). Workshops focused on microcomputer tools for chemists, writing software for microcomputers, Project SERAPHIM instructional computer programming contest, and preparing three-dimensional photographs of models and structures. (JN)

Describes an art activity in which students create "chemigrams" using exposed photo paper to create designs. Explains that this activity can be used with middle and high school students as an introduction to photography or use of chemicals. (CMK)

Describes and explains a procedure for photographing the chaotic scattering of light. (WRM)

Describes a project that was used with advanced 11th and 12th grade art students in which they created silk-screen self-portraits in the style of Andy Warhol. Discusses the process of creating the portraits and the activities that concluded the project. Lists the needed materials. (CMK)

This military-developed text consists of nine lessons dealing with investigative photography. Covered in the individual lessons are the following topics: light (light as the basis of photography, the behavior of light, the composition of white light, light transmission, reflection and absorption, illumination, and pinholes and light); camera…

Brief course descriptions and educational objectives of the art program in grades 9-12, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, Maryland, are provided. Courses are elective and may be grouped into two sequences. Students with broad interests may elect Fundamentals of Art and continue with a series of studio art classes. Students interested in…

This minicourse was prepared for use with secondary physics students in the Dallas Independent School District and is one option in a physics program which provides for the selection of topics on the basis of student career needs and interests. This minicourse was designed to help students acquire a knowledge of some physics of photography and to…

The purpose of this study was to develop a rationale for and to organize sequences of visual education concepts and skills that could function as a part of a secondary language arts program embodying the approaches of James Moffett. The literature on visual education was studied to identify those factors related specifically to professional…

Analyzes the rise of photography during the Civil War period, and discusses current photographic technology. Examines photography entrepreneurs, and expounds on notable individuals in photography. Describes types of photographs taken, problems encountered in gathering pictures, and popular responses to photography. Concentrates on Civil War…