1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn more about this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.
Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W E Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

2. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?
© Art Wolfe/Mint Images
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?
Today, we show you how the sausage is made: In the end, the photograph may appear to be an unmediated view of a bear alone in the vast, unspoiled wilderness. Now we know differently.
In reality, there’s a lot of work that goes into taking great photos. The best photographers find the right location, ensure they’re ready when the magic happens, have mastery over their equipment, and—on occasion—are able to elbow out the other shutterbugs for the right angle.
Of course, it helps to recognize a chance at an unusual shot. And there’s no better time to practice all those skills than today, on World Photo Day.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?1
Web Search
What is the rule of thirds? 2
Image Search
Use Bing images to identify 3 images that evoke an emotional reaction. 3
How does a close up shot vs a wide shot change the tone of the image? 4
How do different viewpoints convey a different message? 5
Thinking
How can adding high quality visuals to a project increase effectiveness?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?1
Web Search
What is the rule of thirds? 2
Image Search
Use Bing images to identify 3 images that evoke an emotional reaction. 3
How does a close up shot vs a wide shot change the tone of the image? 4
How do different viewpoints convey a different message? 5
Thinking
How can adding high quality visuals to a project increase effectiveness?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?1
Web Search
What is the rule of thirds?
(Possible Search Queries: “rule of thirds”)
Sources
The rule of thirds is a photography guideline that says that an image should be imagined divided up into 9 equal parts by having two horizontal lines and two vertical lines equally spaced apart. The subject should be placed along these lines.

8. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?2
Image Search
Use Bing images to identify 3 images that evoke an emotional reaction.
(Possible Search Query: “Bing Image of the Day”)
Sources

9. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?3
Web Search
How does a close up shot vs a wide shot change the tone of the image?
(Possible Search Query: “emotion camera angle”)
Sources
imaging sources:
Camera angles affect the emotion that it draws from people. A close up shot brings a person close with the image where a wide shot puts the person at a farther distance, evoking less emotion.

10. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?4
web search
How do different viewpoints convey a different message?
(Possible Search Query: “emotion viewpoint photography”)
Sources:
The view point you choose can affect the way you perceive an image. When you are looking at someone at eye level, you are equal. When the camera angle is from down below, it is as if you are looking up at a person like from the view of a child. Looking up at someone also represents a respect for that person. At an angle from above, you are looking down at someone. This can represent that you have authority over them.

11. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?5
Thinking
How can adding high quality visuals to a project increase effectiveness?
Student answers may vary. They might include that using high quality visuals in a project creates can communicate different emotions and perspectives that are difficult to communicate through just words.

12. How can learning photography techniques help you to more clearly communicate your ideas?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.