Photography · Week 4 · Seeing Like a Photographer
Slow Looking
Students spend five quiet minutes finding one subject on campus and connect slow looking to calming the mind.
- Students will
- Students spend five quiet minutes studying one subject, describe details and mood using photo vocabulary, and analyze how slow looking changes their understanding of an image.
- SEL skill
- Use slow looking and breathing to calm and focus
- What it looks like
- Students use slow looking as a strategy to calm their bodies and focus their attention.
- Content focus
- Slow looking: what changes when I slow down
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means steering your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach a goal you care about. More self-management 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:Re7.2.HSI: Visual Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 7 (Perceive and analyze artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Photography
- Exposure and Patience Self-managementStudents troubleshoot overexposed and underexposed images and practice adjusting settings without giving up.
- Breaking the Rules Self-managementStudents intentionally break a composition rule and reflect on the discomfort and the discoveries of experimenting.
- Darkroom Patience Self-managementDeveloping a print in the darkroom or through a simulated process, students practice staying calm through steps they cannot rush.
- Rescuing a Flawed Image Self-managementStudents revise a flawed image through cropping and tone adjustments and reflect on the value of persistence.
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