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MYP unit planner Unit title Photography Teacher(s) Greg Dinon/Matt Johnston Subject and grade level ICT 7 Time frame and duration 4 weeks (34 hrs per week) Stage 1: Integrate significant concept, area of interaction and unit question Area of interaction focus Which area of interaction will be our focus? Why have we chosen this? Community & Service Students will be able to: Identify images that best represent the positive qualities of NISC. To determine the best photographical techniques to capture these qualities. Assessment What task(s) will allow student the opportunity to respond to the unit question? What will constitute acceptable evidence of understanding? How will students show what they have understood? Students will View examples of Photographic techniques and use these to select images that show these. Select a famous Photographer, view part of their body of work and show how they utilized the rules/skills of photography to create memorable photos. Identify and describe methods available to NISC to market itself using still photography Utilize resources that will help them Identify skills and methods that enhance marketing through still photography, and present their ideas in a design brief. Significant concept(s) What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? A Photographer is able to use certain techniques to enhance the quality and interest level of the subject they are photographing. MYP unit question How does a photographer create a memorable photo?

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MYP unit planner 

 Unit title  

Photography

Teacher(s)  

Greg Dinon/Matt Johnston 

Subject and grade level  ICT 7 Time frame and duration  4 weeks (3‐4 hrs per week)  

Stage 1: Integrate significant concept, area of interaction and unit question 

 Area of interaction focus 

 Which area of interaction will be our focus? 

Why have we chosen this? Community & Service Students will be able to: 

• Identify images that best represent the positive qualities of NISC. 

• To determine the best photographical techniques to capture these qualities. 

 

 

 

 

Assessment What task(s) will allow student the opportunity to respond to the unit question? What will constitute acceptable evidence of understanding? How will students show what they have understood? Students will  

• View examples of Photographic techniques and use these to select images that show these. • Select a famous Photographer, view part of their body of work and show how they utilized the rules/skills 

of photography to create memorable photos. • Identify and describe methods available to NISC to market itself using still photography • Utilize resources that will help them Identify skills and methods that enhance marketing through still 

photography, and present their ideas in a design brief.  

 

 Significant concept(s) 

 What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? 

• A Photographer is able to use certain techniques to enhance the quality and interest level of the subject they are photographing.  

MYP unit question  

 How does a photographer create a memorable photo?

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Which specific MYP objectives will be addressed during this unit? 

Interim Objectives: •  Investigate: Identify and describe the still photographic techniques that are available to market NISC and 

make judgments about the appropriateness of each. • Plan: Design at least two possible solutions and justify how these use the skills and techniques to make an 

effective advertisement. To devise a plan that will enable them to follow the design they have created. • Create: Follow their plan to create the preferred final product. • Evaluate: Students will evaluate their work using a guiding scaffold. 

  

Which MYP assessment criteria will be used?  A, B, C, D, E, F  

 

Stage 2: Backward planning: from the assessment to the learning activities through inquiry 

Content What knowledge and/or skills (from the course overview) are going to be used to enable the student to respond to the unit question? What (if any) state, provincial, district or local standards/skills are to be addressed? How can they be unpacked to develop the significant concept(s) for stage 1? Knowledge: Understanding what makes an effective photo, the techniques that can be used. Identify the techniques within a series of photographs, and discuss why they are effective  Understand the design process in creating an advertisement using still photography. Skills: Using a digital camera correctly How to use Photoshop to correct and make simple enhancements. Use Photoshop to develop a poster that showcases these techniques.   Approaches to learning How will this unit contribute to the overall development of subject‐specific and general approaches to learning skills? Organization‐ Planning of poster production, resources to be used and collection of resources Collaboration‐ Students will work in pairs when collecting resources, evaluating images and planning the poster.  Thinking‐ Brainstorming ideas concerning appropriate parts of NISC that lend themselves to each photographical technique. Reflection‐ Students will reflect on their final product and how it reflects their initial design.  

 

 

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Learning experiences  How will students know what is expected of them? Will they see examples, rubrics or templates?  How will students acquire the knowledge and practice the skills required? How will they practice applying these?  Do the students have enough prior knowledge? How will we know? 

Teaching strategies How will we use formative assessment to give students feedback during the unit?  What different teaching methodologies will we employ? How are we differentiating teaching and learning for all? How have we made provision for those learning in a language other than their mother tongue?  How have we considered those with special educational needs? 

Students will: See examples of good techniques from a range of famous photographs/photographers Use and discuss a rubric that uses the skills of good photography to judge theirs and others photos. Learn skills in Photoshop required in enhancing photos and creating the poster. Students will follow the MYP lifecycle in creating the poster.  

Students willReceive feedback in class and while collecting resources. Rubric discussion on Famous Photos session. Feedback during guided Photoshop exercises. Work in pairs to encourage to develop peer tutoring and self/shared reflection.  

Resources  What resources are available to us?  How will our classroom environment, local environment and/or the community be used to facilitate students’ experiences during the unit? Own computer with Photoshop/net for resources.Students will have access to class/own cameras to collect images.   

Ongoing reflections and evaluation 

In keeping an ongoing record, consider the following questions. There are further stimulus question at the end of the “Planning for teaching and learning” section of MYP: From principles into practice.  Students and teachers What did we find compelling? Were our disciplinary knowledge/skills challenged in any way? What inquiries arose during the learning? What, if any, extension activities arose? How did we reflect – both on the unit and on our own learning? Which attributes of the learner profile were encouraged through this unit? What opportunities were there for student‐initiated action?  Possible connections How successful was the collaboration with other teachers within my subject group and from other subject groups? What interdisciplinary understandings were or could be forged through collaboration with other subjects?  Assessment  Were students able to demonstrate their learning? How did the assessment tasks allow students to demonstrate the learning objectives identified for this unit? How did I make sure students were invited to achieve at all levels of the criteria descriptors? 

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Are we prepared for the next stage?  Data collection How did we decide on the data to collect? Was it useful?