Hello I decided to "give back" to a local school and teach an 8 week photography class. The class last 1hour. There are 20 kids 6-8th grade. Dose anyone know of any worksheets of photography terms, rules of comp, etc. They need to be geared towards children. I am on week 2 and need a guide....badly. But am absoutly swapmed in business (shooting 4 weddings in the next 4 days ) Also if anyone wanted to dontate any old camera film or other wise or anything else the school would be happy to provide you with a tax fourm. Not really why I posted this but wanted to throw it out thier. Please just mail it to
[b]Blanche Reynolds Elementary School[/b]
Attn Open classrooms 6-8 photography enrichment
450 Valmore Ave.
Ventura, CA 93003

please include the vaule and your name and addy or fax number for the tax fourm. These kids are great!

If you know of any worksheets that would help me out please post them here or email them to me candice@2020images.com

Thank you everyone!!!

you don't need all the terms and fancy talk stuff... here's why these are middle schoolers... they don't care...so here's what you do

I just did a 2 hour session with girl scouts... here is what I did... I had them all bring in a camera point and shoot disposable it didn't matter...

We talked about the below

Angles
Looks are deceiving
Observation
Rule of Third
being out of focus (depth of field)

I first showed them a slideshow... below, a condensed version of this... I showed this on a large computer screen. I tried to do a round table thing... instead of a standard classroom thing but that might not work in your case...

http://slideshow.mattmcgrawphotography.com/yearinreview2007/

Then I serperated the photos in 5 folders and talked about each of these topics...

Afterwards I had them all take their cameras and go around and take photos of different things around the room... first take 5 photos at an angle, then try to take a photo where what you see may not be what you get... then so on...

You can spread this out over a few weeks. Talk about each topic one per period

also the whole time I was doing this I was taking photos of them... when I put them on an assignment I was taking photos of them. in the end I did a slideshow set to music of them. It was a huge hit

hope this helps.

Hey Matt,

I am a voluntary scout leader at my son's troop in my spare time! We have two dates coming up where we are doing a photography input, you have some great ideas there I might just have to borrow a couple of them! I like the idea of taking some shots of the kid's doing the project and then putting it on a slideshow, brilliant! We were going put up a gallery near to Christmas time, and then invite the parents to judge the results, but I think the slideshow idea may be better. Thanks.

I asked a similar question a while back about a youth group I volunteer with. Here was the thread, there may be a couple ideas you can pull from it.

http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index...c=33555&hl=

And here is another thread that Jayme G posted:
http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index...showtopic=19946

This is what I lurve so much about OSP and the people on here!!

What do you love? That people teach or that people do archive searches for each other?