BP5_2009103_FlickrLessonPlan

Looking at Flickr and all the amazing photographs that are uploaded by the public has been inspiring for me as a teacher. Since the images are so varied and they have tagged words that organize them into groups, it would be fun to use the images educationally. The arts or languages would be a likely outlet for educational lessons. Even the sciences, history, social studies, and cultural studies would be possible areas that teachers and students could investigate using the images.

One lesson that Flickr presented online that an elementary teacher might use talked about looking for action words and teaching verbs to students. Students are introduced to new verbs and relate them to the photographs that match up to the words. Students repeat the words and use them in sentences.

In the elementary art class this lesson could be extended to drawing. When drawing portraits one topic students have to think about is action. “What is the person or animal doing?” Having looked up action words for the language assignment students could build on those ideas and make a drawing showing action.

Students could all look up the same action word and see how the same word is represented in different ways. For example “run” could be depicted using an animal running on a mountain, or a group of animals running near a river, a person running on a sunny day or on a rainy day, a person running in the city or running in the wilderness.

Or each student could pick an action word and do a drawing which they then share with their classmates to talk about their action word.

Students could title their work of art and include the action word in the title. Also Students could make a creative writing piece that corresponds to their artwork. Using Flickr as the inspiration, students would be provided a multitude of visual samples that have the potential to put their creative processes in motion.

Flickr lesson plan idea retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/19387797/Lesson-Plan-With-Flickr