Photography · Week 35 · Series, Portfolio, and Exhibition
Looking Back Through the Lens
Students compare their week one photos with their final series and describe how they have grown as photographers and as people.
- Students will
- Students compare a week one photo with their final series image using criteria and describe their growth as photographers and as people.
- SEL skill
- Name a strength and support it with evidence from your photographs
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by recognizing strengths they have developed over the year.
- Content focus
- Looking Back Through the Lens
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness 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:Re9.1.HSI: Media Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 9 (Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Photography
- My Life Through a Lens Self-awarenessStudents take five photos that show who they are and name the feelings behind each choice.
- Framing and Attention Self-awarenessUsing a paper viewfinder, students frame the same scene several ways and notice what they choose to include and leave out.
- Light and Mood Self-awarenessStudents photograph one subject in direct sun, shade, and backlight and describe how light changes the feeling of the image.
- Self Portrait Without a Face Self-awarenessStudents create a self-portrait using objects, hands, or shadows and describe the emotions they chose to reveal.
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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.