Photography · Week 28 · Documentary and Community
Collaborative Photo Story
Teams combine images, text, and sound into one photo story and negotiate whose images are included.
- Students will
- Teams combine images, text, and a sound idea into one photo story and use fair communication to decide whose images are included.
- SEL skill
- Use an i statement and ask a teammate's view before deciding
- What it looks like
- Students practice relationship skills by sharing ideas, listening, and negotiating a fair decision as a team.
- Content focus
- Collaborative Photo Story
- Format
- Group roles share
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building healthy connections through clear communication, listening, teamwork, and working through disagreements. 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
- MA:Pr4.1.HSI: Media Arts, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 4 (Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More relationship skills activities for Photography
- Camera Care and Trust Relationship skillsStudents learn safe handling of shared cameras and darkroom chemicals and set agreements for borrowing and returning equipment.
- 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.
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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.