Category Archives: Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Think Before You Shoot: Creating Images with Impact in the Journalism Classroom

February 1, 2018 – 12:07 pm

Michele Lemere, English, Garinger HS

Tags High School, Journalism, Media Literacy, media representation, photo manipulation, Photography, visual literacy, yearbook | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Making Cells and Seeing Organelles: A Visual and Tactile Exploration of Cellular Structure

February 1, 2018 – 12:05 pm

Kim Mayes, Science, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags ambitious science teaching, animal cell, Biology, cell art, cell membrane, cell wall, cells, cellular structure, culturally relevant science, cytoplasm, hierarchical organization, imaging, living, microscope, nucleus, organelles, plant cell, primer diagrams, ribosome, scientific representation, specialized cell, STEAM, tissue, unit of life | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Understanding Images and Their Power

February 1, 2018 – 12:03 pm

Kate Allen, Visual Art, W.A. Hough HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags 21st Century Skills, Analysis, art criticism, art history, communication, contemporary art, cross-hatching, description, Design, global themes, hatching, High School, images, interpretation, narrative, portraiture, proportion, scumbling, self-portrait, shading, symbols, value, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Square One: Establishing Visual Literacy in the Classroom

February 1, 2018 – 12:01 pm

Justin Pierce, Visual Art, W.A. Hough HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags adaptation, aesthetic, anticipatory guide, cinquain, collaboration, collage, Consumption, contemporary, Critique, Deconstruction, dialogue, differentiate, digital design, Elementary School, intertextual, observation, ownership, Photography, Photoshop, portfolio, snapchat, transformative, video podcast, visual literacy, VSCO | Permalink | Comments Off

Look at the World; Speak for the Trees

February 1, 2018 – 11:59 am

Jessica Young, Second Grade, Davidson ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags advertising, blended learning, digital literacy, Elementary School, environmentalism, Paideia, project based learning, Social Studies, socratic seminar, the Lorax, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Bringing Visual Literacy to Writing

February 1, 2018 – 11:57 am

Erin Murray, TD/Catalyst Hornets Nest & Statesville RD ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags descriptive writing, Elementary School, inference, Visual Thinking Skills | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

January 31, 2018 – 5:57 pm

Emily Woods, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags 21st Century Skills, Compare, Contrast, Film, literacy, Media, Storyboard, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

A Day at the Valley

January 31, 2018 – 5:54 pm

Emily Steib, Second Grade, Hidden Valley ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Africa, Asia, cameras, country, day in the life, Elementary School, Europe, India, Mexico, personal narratives, photograph, Photography, picture, rubric, school, Spain, United States of America, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Finding the Human Story within an Image

January 31, 2018 – 5:51 pm

Deena Aglialoro, Language Arts, South Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags antisemitism, Bear Witness, bystander, close reading, CommonLit, concentration camps, Courage, Elie Wiesel, extermination camps, fear, fiction, genocide, Germany, ghettos, good and evil, hate, High School, Hitler, Holocaust, human behavior, identity, Night, Poetry, Political Cartoons, Propaganda, pyramid of hate, research paper, Rwanda, swastika, testimonials, visual literacy, written conversation, Yad Vashem | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

See It With Words: Critical Analysis Using Visual Literacy

January 31, 2018 – 5:49 pm

Amanda Soesbee, English, North Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags critical analysis, High School, images, literacy, literary analysis, reading comprehension, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

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Category Archives: Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Think Before You Shoot: Creating Images with Impact in the Journalism Classroom

Making Cells and Seeing Organelles: A Visual and Tactile Exploration of Cellular Structure

Understanding Images and Their Power

Square One: Establishing Visual Literacy in the Classroom

Bringing Visual Literacy to Writing

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

A Day at the Valley

Finding the Human Story within an Image

See It With Words: Critical Analysis Using Visual Literacy

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