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🎨 8th Grade · ArtVA:Cr2.1Unit 3: Digital art & graphic design

Photo composition

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🎯 Objective: Students use the rule of thirds to compose photos.

Lesson outline

  1. Demo.
  2. Shoot photos.
  3. Edit and share.
  4. Exit: one composition rule.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr2.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Create digital images
  • Design for a purpose

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🔗 /tools/image/crop🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Digital art & graphic design”

  1. Graphic design basics
  2. Photo composition
  3. Poster for a cause

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