Secondary Media Arts - Grades 7 and 8
Lesson Plans

Strand: CREATE (7-8.E.CR.)

Students will conceptualize, generate, develop, and organize artistic ideas and work. They will complete and refine media art works (Standards 7-8.E.CR.1-8).

Standard 7-8.E.CR.1:

Produce a variety of ideas and solutions for media artworks through application of chosen inventive processes.

• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
  After listening to, and discussing the various elements of podcasts, students will have the opportunity to employ what they've learned by planning, developing, and producing their own podcasts. This is a culminating project that will happen at the end of the PODCAST Unit. This will take up classes 5 through 10 in a 10 class unit and will take approximately 7 hours of work time to complete. While this lesson could be asynchronous or synchronous, the greatest successes would take place in the classroom with face to face instruction and the provided materials for production.  Photo by Harry Cunningham @harry.digital from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-podcasting-gadgets-7383471/
• Graphic Design 1 Curriculum
  This Graphic Design 1 curriculum is a comprehensive semester long course in digital media that uses Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I started updating this curriculum in the Spring of 2018 and so, if you access the UPDATED GD 1 Curriculum, you will see the most recent additions to my course and have access to all my teaching materials including presentations, lesson plans, video tutorials, student examples, self evaluations and rubrics. Anything highlighted in yellow is in development. Check back often for updates and don't hesitate to message me if you are looking for something specific. Thanks for checking this out! Materials: Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Photographic Mandala
  In this lesson students will learn how to use some basic selection tools, layer panel and tools, transformation tools, some basic shortcuts to create a mandala from a single photograph  as they  learn to use Adobe Photoshop

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