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Review a photographic exhibit featuring the photos of a well known local photographer.
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Organize, advertise, and assist with a photographic tour open to the general public.
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Complete an original screenplay in terms of a historical event and videotape/photograph the resulting performance.
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Document the interactions of a guest speaker.
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Photographically document traffic congestion, honkytonk signs, billboards, and disorderly development along a local route.
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Take pictures of park lands, landscaped residential neighborhoods, and planned development in other parts of town.
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Compile newspaper photos addressing the problems of local citizens.
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Document township development via aerial shots - taken from a helicopter!
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Tour local parks and recreation areas, creating photographic and video-tape essays.
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Document residential/commerical development patterns.
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Have students create a photographic timeline of their school year.
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Debate over a controversial photo (e.g. O.J. Simpson on Time and Newsweek covers).
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Document local historical landmarks.
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Create a collage representing a current event or issue in the news.
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Create a photojournalistic show of your family.
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Visit a local photography exhibit and review it.
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Photograph the physical affects of a disease.
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With two photos imagine the internal monologue of someone in one or both pictures, or by creating likely dialogue between two or more of the people shown.
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Capture some controversial issue in your own school or community through photojournalism that tells the story.
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Research censorship as it applies to photojournalism.
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Compare news coverage of the same event by looking at photographs and other images from newspapers and magazines around the world.
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Act as photography exhibit creators to plan photography exhibits on different social issues.
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Choose a famous photographer and examine his or her works.
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Write the "story" behind a photograph.
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Collect photographs from the newspaper that are related to the same ongoing news event, and place them in chronological order in a scrapbook or on a timeline.
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Predict and test how much of an image can be photographed based on the distance between photographer and subject and lens magnification.
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Study the inner-workings of a camera, investigating how each part functions, film development techniques, focusing on chemical reactions and technological advancements.
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Write a journal entry discussing the impact of images of violence and destruction in the news media.
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Students can find examples of powerful images (both "positive" and "negative") in advertisements, music, and television to evaluate how these images affect the way we view ourselves, others, and the world around us.
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Students can find a photograph in a newspaper or magazine and alter it--for example, by removing part of the picture. Classmates can then guess at the meaning of the photograph, see the original photograph, and discuss how altering pictures affects the messages they send.
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Students can keep a log of the violent images that they see in any given half hour or hour of television viewing.
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Examine the technology used in photography, specifically in altering images.
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Investigate examples of crimes committed that were associated with violence on television, movies, music, or elsewhere in the media.
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Photograph the ethnic populations of your own school or community.
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Create a collage of all of the advertisements in "mainstream" magazines that portray members of a minority group.
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Explore ways in which art preserves history by creating a gallery of photographs, artworks and student-created pieces reflecting the 20th century in Canada.
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Research copyright and fair-use regulations on the use of digital images.
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Write a science fiction story about a person owning the visual memory of a society.
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Create your own advertising campaign for a common product, using iconic images.
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Write a critique of a photograph.
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Research and describe the changing methods journalists have used in capturing and sharing images of military conflicts throughout history.
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Research photographs from past military conflicts and the influence such photographs had on people's support of involvement in the conflict.
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Find an old photograph of yourself when you were a child. Then, write a descriptive narrative about the child in the picture.
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Select a photograph from each section of the newspaper and compare how the photos are used to relay such different types of stories.
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Compare different types of pictures of a famous person (a photograph, a drawing, a cartoon depiction, a painting, a video, a sculpture, etc.). How does each type of visual image offer different meaning to this person?
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Compare and contrast a photograph and a painting or illustration of a famous event. How does the illustration measure up to the "real" image captured in the photograph?
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