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This photography lesson bundle has everything you need to teach photography basics, photography angles, and visual storytelling . This resource includes lesson plans, student-friendly vocabulary, guided notes, and hands-on activities.

This yearbook curriculum theme unit includes everything you need to introduce and explore theme development in a yearbook class. Students will learn key vocabulary, take guided notes, and engage in creative, hands-on activities that reinforce concepts like visual and verbal themes, coverage styles, design elements, and more.

This 3 week unit is designed to help students understand the basic concept of theme in yearbook design through engaging activities, slides, vocabulary sheets, and a culminating project. What's included: Links to all resources needed for the entire unit. Click on the blue links in the unit to make a copy of the resource.

Celebrate Literacy with ease using these cross-curricular literacy station directions for ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. This resource provides clear, student-friendly instructions that help students work independently while practicing essential reading, writing, and vocabulary skills across subjects. The engaging travel-themed activities reinforce that literacy belongs everywhere. What's Included: Celebrate Literacy Google slidesELA Literacy Station: Create-A-Word WorksheetMath Literac

This 2 week unit is designed to help students understand the basic concepts of using a camera and taking quality photography through engaging activities, slides, vocabulary sheets, and a culminating project. What's included: Links to all resources needed for the entire unit.Click on the blue links in the unit to make a copy of the resource.

This ready-to-use lesson (Google Slides or PDF) walks students through the steps of ABCD Caption writing to create clear and informative yearbook photo captions. Students brainstorm, take guided notes, and practice writing captions using sample prompts before sharing their work with peers. Includes: ABCD Captions Presentation (Google Slides or PDF) Student Note Catcher (paper or digital) Practice activities & discussions prompts

Looking for a way to bring the Force into your classroom? This Star Wars-themed May the 4th Choice Board is an interactive, no-prep digital resource perfect for engaging students in creative arts, hands-on building, and trivia. What's Included: (Links to the following activities) Guided Drawing Tutorials: Step-by-step video lessons from Art for Kids Hub to help students draw iconic characters like Kylo Ren and an Ewok.STEM & Paper Craft: A hands-on activity to build a Chopper papercraft using o

Students will learn the elements needed to capture a quality photography through skills including focus, composition, the rule of thirds, lighting, backgrounds, and perspective. Perfect as an introduction to photography, this resource includes key terms, visual examples, and interactive activities to help students capture meaningful and well-composed photos. ' What's Included: Teacher DirectionsEditable slideshow on photography elements with think pair share promptsNote catcher for student usePh

Students can explore Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, and winter themes through kid-friendly videos, simple crafts, and step-by-step drawing activities. Perfect for early finishers, centers, seasonal lessons, or digital assignments, this choice board promotes student choice, creativity, and cultural awareness. Just assign digitally and provide some basic materials—drawing paper, colored paper, glue, and scissors—for a low-prep, high-engagement activity! What’s Included: ✔️ Individual s

Engage your students with this hands-on advertising resource! Students will learn and take notes about what advertising is, why advertisers use it, and explore the five main advertising techniques: association, call to action, emotions, sale/price, and endorsement. Through guided practice, they will apply their knowledge by identifying these strategies in sample ads online, making learning both interactive and practical. What's included: Google Slides Advertising TechniquesNotes: Advertising Te

Make December meaningful with these engaging, no-prep Holiday Reading Passages and Riddles! This cross-cultural resource features reading comprehension passages focused on Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Las Posadas, & the Chinese Lunar New Year traditions. Includes a graphic organizer for critical thinking while reading and fourteen engaging riddles based on each holiday. What's included: Google slides and a Google doc of the reading passages: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Las Pos

In this activity, students choose "One Word" to represent their theme or goal for the year. Students start by brainstorming a list of possible words like Friendship, Kindness, or Confidence. Then, they explain what this word means to them, and write two reasons for choosing it. Next, identify three action steps you can take to achieve your goal. Finally, students can paint/decorate a rock to keep as a symbol for their goal.

Teach students how to bring photos to life—one caption at a time! This engaging, ready-to-use lesson helps middle grade students write short, impactful captions that tell a “5-second story.” Perfect for yearbook staff, journalism classes, or any writing unit that focuses on media literacy, this activity builds students’ ability to write with clarity, creativity, and purpose. What's included: Caption That (Google Slides & PDF)Note CatcherActivity Rubric

Streamline your yearbook planning with this editable Google Docs ladder template. This resource includes a 100-page blank planning outline and a pre-filled version to help you map page assignments, stay organized, and record page ideas with ease. Include: Blank 100 page Yearbook ladder (Editable)100 Page Prefilled pages(Editable)

Help students use classroom cameras safely, respectfully, and responsibly with this all-in-one camera policy and procedure pack. This resource sets clear expectations for care, privacy, and professionalism, and includes practical tools like a checkout log, student contract, and learning checklist—perfect for the start of the year or a photography unit launch. What's Included: (All able to be edited in Google Docs) Camera Use Policy – Student-friendly rules for responsible use, privacy, and careC

Help students tell powerful stories through photography with this engaging, ready-to-use lesson! This resource introduces key visual storytelling techniques—such as leading lines, framing, action/reaction, and anticipation—through interactive slides, guided notes, and a hands-on photography activity. What's included: Teacher DirectionsEditable slideshow on Visual Storytelling TechniquesNote catcher for student useThink pair share promptsStudent activity/project to apply learning (using cameras t

Engage your students in learning how to write informative, attention-grabbing headlines and subheadlines for yearbook pages with this ready-to-use lesson! Perfect for middle school or high school yearbook classes, this lesson provides step-by-step guidance, hands-on activities, and editable materials to make your instruction seamless. What’s Included:Page Headlines and Subheadlines (Google Slides or PDF presentation)Notes Catcher Activity Worksheet

This worksheet, titled "A Simple Approach to Great Captions," is designed to guide students through the process of writing effective and engaging captions for yearbook photos. It accompanies the video A Simple Approach to Great Captions, helping students understand the importance of captions and how to craft them thoughtfully. Includes: Link to VideoNote taking sheet 4 Caption practice pictures (One has sample caption example.)

Help your students become confident interviewers! This lesson teaches the difference between closed and open-ended questions and gives practice creating interview questions for yearbook captions and stories using a 10 question guideline format. Included: Interview Question slides with practice activitiesInterview Questions Note catcherInterview Question Bank

Students will be creating and developing a plan for the yearbook theme. They will be submitting slides and giving a brief presentation about their chosen theme. The resource includes: Rubric outlining each slide expectation(8 slides total) *Presentation expectation included on rubric Theme Planning SheetPeer slides evaluations sheet