Figurative language uses words or expressions that go beyond the literal meaning of words to get the message across. Although direct language is easier to understand, in some instances we respond better to more creative wording. For example, writers like to use figurative language to build imagery and give words more power. Idioms are considered some of the highest levels of language processing and some students with language impairments struggle with understanding the meaning of these figurative language. 

This lesson plan was created as a way for students to show their understanding of six different types of figurative language. Students will need to have learned about simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. Students will also need to have learned about citing sources for images found online. Image License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

This lesson is for preschool children to showcase their fine motor projects. Students will take photos using the classroom iPad and a college will be made to hang in the fine motor area to showcase student work and to be an inspiration board for other students.This project will be connected to our letter of the day. 

This lesson is designed to help students in a yearbook or photography course gain knowlege and improve thier photography skills by putting into practice skills that have been taught previously using photographs taken by others. They will practice camera angles, position and composition techniques. Flat Stanley Visits Epcot, Experience Kissimee, CC 2.0, Flickr

This lesson is for Pre-K as part of a Healthy Foods and Food Groups Unit. Students will take photos of foods they eat and then sort photos into 5 food groups. 

This lesson plan focuses on the careers of Food Photography and Food Styling. It was written for the College and Career Awareness Course which explores a variety of careers in 8th grade. The lesson plan includes a video on Food Styling, a video on Food Photography Tips and Tricks, followed with the "Glass of Water Challenge" which combines both Food Styling and Food Photography.Strands and Standards for College & Career Awareness1.1  Students will assess their interests and aptitudes as they explore career options in the career clusters and pathways.1.3  Explore the current Utah career cluster and pathways associated with each cluster and analyze the overlapping content:  Arts/Audio/Visual Technology & Communication, Hopsitality & Tourism

This lesson is a fun way to help students understand that geometry is all around us! Students will have the opportunity to explore structures both virtually and in-person, helping them discover the significance of angles and shapes in architecture.Image Credit: "DSC_2072 geometry in architecture - Manchester" by Filip Patock is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

This lesson plan teaches students about the habitats found around the world and encourages digital fluency by requiring them to explore digital resourses and create an Adobe Photo Page.  First, students will question, discuss, view, explore, read, and research to build their knowledge.  Then they will demonstrate this knowlege by choosing a habitiat, selecting appropriate photos, adding descriptive informational text, and providing correct citations to their projects.  They will then publish and share their projects with their peers.  Intro Image Citation:Nambia Desert Sand, By FuN_Lucky,  PixaBay License https://pixabay.com/photos/namibia-desert-sand-dune-dust-2049203/

This lesson plan is designed to go along with a classroom reading of Hamlet for high school students (grades 9-12). This lesson is designed to help students with their close reading skills and help them to create a deeper understanding of what is going on in one of Hamlet's soliloquies in the play. The lesson can be adapted for any of the soliloquies found in Hamlet (along with other Shakespearean plays). This lesson plan allows students to come outside of the difficulty of Shakespearean language and create meaning through connecting the words to artwork. It would be appropriate as an individual assignment, as well as an assignment for partners or small groups. 

This is an intro into Photoshop lesson for students. I use this as the second project of the semester for both my Commerical Art and Photography students to get them to have a better understanding of Adobe Photoshop. The main skills focused on are: the lasso tool, blending, hue and saturation, transforming an image and copy right images. This lesson is for middle or high school and takes about 2 hours hitting both CTE and Art state standards. (The image on the front of lesson plan has one eye and the nose altered.) 

This wiki page documents the Sun Curve Design Challenge, inspired by the "Sun Curve" aquaponic garden sculpture to challenge teachers and students to produce new OER materials and incorporate green design thinking into the classroom.

Overview: Young people need to understand  they are important and they need to have respect for themselves as well as for others. This lesson helps students learn that they do have qualities they should be proud of. They need to understand it is important to like themselves. This lesson has students reflect on things that make them important and feel excited to be them. This lesson discuss Citation:Thunmbnail image photographer Norlene HamannThis pic was chosen because it is an avatar of me. Thumbnail  created in bitmoji http://bitmoji.com

Over the course of a few days,  students will learn to identify characters from stories.  Students will identify a character from a book they have read.  They will draw their character, take a picture of their drawing, and create a post in Adobe Creative Cloud Express on their character.  They will then get to present their post in small groups.  

Students learn about the states of matter and demonstrate their understanding using digital images.Thumbnail image credit: "Phone" author unknown, from Hippopx.com  CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

This unit walks students through the research process from pre-writing to publishing using cars as the topic, but it could be adapted for any basic research subject. The final project allows them to publish to the world creating an Adobe Express web page.Diagram of an Internal Combustion Piston Engine, By User:Wapcaplet - Own work, made with Blender, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=182044A modern assembly-line, By Marek Slusarczyk, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116381370

In this lesson students learn how to write an informational paper on a friend or thing. They will then take or find pictures that will represent the topic or person that they chose. This is an introductory writing lesson so it does not contain research.  Informational Writing and Photography © 2022 by Ashley Moody is licensed underCC BY 4.0 

At age twenty-seven, physicist Philip Morrison joined the Manhattan Project, the code name given to the U.S. government's covert effort at Los Alamos to develop the first nuclear weapon. The Manhattan Project was also the most expensive single program ever financed by public funds. In this video segment, Morrison describes the charismatic leadership of his mentor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the urgency of their mission to manufacture a weapon 'which if we didn't make first would lead to the loss of the war." In the interview Morrison conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: 'Dawn,' he describes the remote, inaccessible setting of the laboratory that operated in extreme secrecy. It was this physical isolation, he maintains, that allowed scientists extraordinary freedom to exchange ideas with fellow physicists. Morrison also reflects on his wartime fears. Germany had many of the greatest minds in physics and engineering, which created tremendous anxiety among Allied scientists that it would win the atomic race and the war, and Morrison recalls the elaborate schemes he devised to determine that country's atomic progress. At the time that he was helping assemble the world's first atomic bomb, Morrison believed that nuclear weapons 'could be made part of the construction of the peace.' A month after the war, he toured Hiroshima, and for several years thereafter he testified, became a public spokesman, and lobbied for international nuclear cooperation. After leaving Los Alamos, Morrison returned to academia. For the rest of his life he was a forceful voice against nuclear weapons.

This lesson is designed to be used as a library orientation generally done in conjunction with Ninth Grade English teachers and their classes.

Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.

This lesson is used to have culinary arts students demonstrate their ability to plate, photograph, and create a sales pitch for a glass of water.This assignment aligns with the Utah Secondary FCS Strands & Standards.  Preview Image is used with permission  "A glass of water" by gromgull is licensed under CC BY 2.0..