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Lesson Plans
Telling Stories with Photographs
Students explore images from Everyday Africa, and then practice planning images for a photography exhibition that aims to present everyday life in their communities.
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Lesson Plans
Practicing Photojournalism Skills
This is the third lesson in the Everyday DC unit, and it introduces students to photography techniques for use in their Everyday DC project.
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Lesson Plans
Captioning and Curating Photography
Students explore photography the Everyday Africa and Everyday DC projects to develop curation and caption-writing skills.
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Exploring Portraiture as a Storytelling Tool
Students practice conducting interviews and using them to illuminate portrait photographs that reflect underreported stories of everyday life in their communities.
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Students explore the Everyday Africa project, and then apply photography and curation techniques to compose photo stories that represent everyday life in their communities.
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This is the seventh and final lesson in the Everyday DC unit, where students conclude their work on Everyday DC by completing a final individual and collaborative project.
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Lesson Plans
Analyzing the Exit of Private Prisons: Now What?
Students analyze text-based reporting and engage with what happens when communities decide to stop relying on private companies to run correctional institutions
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Lesson Plans
Growing Up Through the Cracks: Exploring Solutions to Child Poverty in Scotland and the United States
Students analyze solutions to end child poverty in Glasgow, Scotland and Allegheny County in the Southwest of Pennsylvania.
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Students learning about the coronavirus (COVID-19) explore, analyze, and make connections to how the world has responded to the spread of infectious diseases in the past.
