Green Ambassadors


	Index Introduction Becoming a Sustainability Expert California Science Standards California ELA Standards How to Be a Green Ambassador Unit: Creating an Earth+ Photo Story Unit: Delivering an Earth+ Presentation Unit: Creating and Delivering an Earth+ Presentation Unit: Writing an Earth+ Script Unit: Producing an Earth+ Video Documentary Unit: Creating Earth+ Marketing Materials Unit: Producing an Earth+ Event Unit: Earth+ Social Marketing Unit: Producing an Earth+ Fundraiser Unit: Earth+ Public Relations Training Unit: Planning and Delivering an Earth+ Elementary Lesson Unit: Creating an Earth+ Game Unit: Creating Earth+ Alternative Marketing

Teaching Guide: Creating an Earth+ Photo Story
Guiding Questions	How can we use pictures to quickly and effectively present sustainability issues and solutions?
Objectives: Language Arts	Standard NL-ENG.K-12.5 COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes. Concepts Photo Story Story Board Skills Can create a story board which effectively communicates an intended message to a target market
Objectives: Values	Students believe that they have a responsibility to contribute to the well-being of their community. Students work to gather and share knowledge that supports the well-being of their community. Students encourage other community members to engage in practices that contribute to the well-being of their community.
Assessment	In the performance task for this lesson, students create a new Photo Story and test its effectiveness with members of a target market. (View Performance Task here)
Preparation	From a collection of magazines, use sticky notes to mark pages that have large photos which are included in order to make a point of some sort. (Advertisements are a good source of these.) You want to have at least one magazine per student team. Identify a resource for teaching students about how to take good photographs, from those listed on the Green Ambassadors Web Resources page (here), and set up your computer and projector to present it. Make enough copies of the Checklist for an Effective Earth+ Photo Story for each student. (download here) Make enough copies of the essay A Good Picture for each student. (download here) Set up your computer and projector to present the Composting Photo Story (View html version here) (View/download Quicktime version here) Alternatively or additionally, you may wish to print it out, one image per sheet. If so, you should make enough copies so that each team has their own. (Download pfd version here) Make enough copies of the Earth+ Photo Story Board Example for each student. (download here)
Into	Distribute the magazines to the teams (one per team), open at the pages with the photographs selected. Ask the students to work in their teams to respond in writing to these prompts: Who is the market for this photograph? What message(s) do you think the photograph is intended to convey?
Through	Distribute the essay A Good Picture, and read through it with the class. For each concept covered in the essay, have students point out examples of how that concept relates to the magazine images they are looking at. (Alternatively, you may wish to have teams do this as a group activity, then report out to the class what they observed.) Use the web resource you selected earlier to familiarize students with techniques for taking good photographs. Students should take notes as you do this. Then have students work in their groups again to respond to these prompts, in writing. How do these elements of the photograph relate to how well it communicates its message(s)? Subject matter Composition Lighting Colors What would you do differently with this picture to communicate the message more clearly or more powerfully? Distribute copies of the Checklist for an Effective Earth+ Photo Story. Take students through the Composting Photo Story once to familiarize them with its content, then take them through it again while they use the checklist to evaluate it individually. Ask teams to work together to respond to this prompt, in writing: What could be done differently to make this photo story more effective? Distribute copies of the Earth+ Photo Story Board Example, one per pair of students. Have students work in teams to respond to these prompts in writing: What is missing from the story board? How does a story board help create a good photo exhibit?
Beyond	Students work individually to produce an improved story board for composting story. Students carry out the Performance Task for this lesson