Photography · Week 2 · Seeing Like a Photographer
Camera Care and Trust
Students learn safe handling of shared cameras and darkroom chemicals and set agreements for borrowing and returning equipment.
- Students will
- Students handle shared cameras and darkroom materials safely and write class agreements for borrowing, returning, and repairing mistakes.
- SEL skill
- Report a mistake honestly and plan a repair
- What it looks like
- Students practice building trust through honest communication about equipment and how to repair a mistake.
- Content focus
- Camera care and trust: how we take care of shared tools
- Format
- Role play
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy connections through clear communication, careful listening, teamwork, and working through conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- VA:Cr2.2.HSI: Visual Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 2 (Organize and develop artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More relationship skills activities for Photography
- First Critique Relationship skillsStudents use a warm and cool feedback protocol on each other's first prints and plan one revision.
- Portraits and Trust Relationship skillsStudents practice asking permission before taking a portrait and notice how trust between photographer and subject shows in the image.
- Feedback on Edits Relationship skillsPartners give feedback on edited images using shared criteria and practice receiving suggestions without defending.
- Collaborative Photo Story Relationship skillsTeams combine images, text, and sound into one photo story and negotiate whose images are included.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.