Goal Setting/Planning PTSA Reflections: The World Would be a Better Place If...

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How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?(Creative Process and Expressive Qualities/Perspective)

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning (this will be you learning goal for the project)?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning to meet your goal?

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Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Landscape

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Name your post "Critique - Landscape"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How did your planning and goal setting impact your final landscape image?

What composition tips did you follow when taking the photos of landscapes? How did the tips impact the success of your best photo?

Evaluate the quality of light in your landscape photograph. What type of light did you take the photo in? Would a different type of light improve your photo?

What would you do differently next time you take landscape photos?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning Landscape

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Landscape"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique Motion

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Name your post "Critique - Motion"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4)


1. What were your learning goals for the project?

2. What type of motion is this photo and what kind of shutter speed did you use. How does this technique contribute to the meaning of the photo?

3.What expressive qualities (Explain using Elements of Art & Principles of Design Vocabulary) does your motion image possess? How do the expressive qualities contribute to the meaning of the photo?

4. For what purposes could this motion image serve in local and global society?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.