Art & Nature Unit || Week 2 of 6 || Photography & Digital Collage

Week 2 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores photography and digital collages using iPads, and celebrates the use of nature within art. Improves digital literacy and Includes non-digital alternatives. Perfect for teaching in Fall, Summer or Spring with Grades 1-3!

This product contains a 21-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through learning the basics of photography and different shots that artists use. Children are encouraged to be out in nature, taking photos using these different shots ready for those images to be edited and manipulated when back in class. The Teaching PowerPoints guides children through the use of PicCollage (a free app) to create digital collages.

This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on gaining digital literacy skills, such as photo editing, uploading and downloading images from Google, cutting out images from their backgrounds and arranging them aesthetically.

This lesson is likely to take 1.5-2 hours, involving a short stop outside to take some photos that could be as short or as long as you like! If you don’t have access to outdoor space for your students, images from online search engines could be used!

This product contains activities, including:

• ‘What do we remember from last week?’ questioning activity
• Listed vocabulary for discussions on definitions or spelling practice
• Introduction to photography teaching slides
• Macro photography quiz game
• Digital nature collage task involving iPads and PicCollage
• Non-digital alternative using physical items from nature to collage

This download includes:

• A 21-slide Teaching PowerPoint
• ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
• Outline of the planning
• 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
• Links to websites for extra inspiration, if needed!