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Through the Lens

Teacher Anne Girven

 

YEAR

LEVEL

DURATION

4 2 3-4 weeks

 

Achievement Objective Being Assessed

Learning Outcomes

Viewing Respond to meanings and ideas in photographs, identifying and describing the verbal and visual features.
Presenting Use verbal and visual features of photographs, headlines and captions to communicate information.

Processes

Thinking Critically Demonstrate awareness of how images and words can be combined to convey meaning.
Processing Information View and use photographs to gain and present information.

 

Teacher background reading

Teaching and learning activities

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

This unit has been planned in two sections

Learning task 1: Viewing Photographs

Learning task 2: Photographs, Headlines and Captions

Assessment

assessment (RTF 10KB)
peer_assessment (RTF 522KB)

Resources

Electronic

Print

  • Exploring Language:
  • School Journals
    • Keep Still for the Photo 1979 Part 1 No 6
      A hundred years ago cameras worked very slowly and people had to stand still for about a minute
    • Liz Brook - photographer 1979 Part 2 No 3
      Takes photographs for a newspaper
    • My Camera 1998 Part 3 No 3
      Mere's having a little bit of trouble perfecting her camera technique. Mere's brother Wiremu makes a great joke of all this until...
    • Pioneer Photographer 1982 Part 3 No 2 Alfred Burton was an English photographer who came to New Zealand in the last century.
    • Searching for Sealions 1988 Story Library
      An underwater photographer writes about his one of his most exciting trips. New Zealand's Colourful Sea life photos to show the colourful fish in New Zealand waters.
  • Newspapers in Education - Photography (this is part of a Newpapers In Education pack)

FOLLOW UP

Next steps - moving images. Students will be able to apply knowledge and understandings as they explore moving images. See Persuading Others , a unit in which students explore television advertisements, looking at the audience they target, their verbal and visual features and stererotypes. Students use this understanding to produce their own TV advertisement using a video camera.

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