The following ready-to-use educational tools are available for teachers to access, print, and use with students in the classroom. Teachers can adapt, change or transform the tools according to their needs. The following sequence can be followed as a continuous lesson or separated into individual activities.
Discussion Questions:
Who Created Your Image? (PDF)
These questions will generate discussion about portraiture and prepare students for the Remixing Identity lesson.
Introductory Activity:
Changing the Context — Understanding Recontextualization (PDF)
This activity introduces the idea that changing the context of an image can change its meaning.
Lesson Plan:
Remixing Identity (PDF)
The lesson entitled Remixing Identity explores how we see and represent ourselves. It proposes ways to visually communicate thoughts by changing the context of borrowed or created imagery. Inspired by Jeff Thomas and BEAR Thomas’s work and processes, this lesson invites students to represent their own identity and share their stories through a collaged self-portrait. Lesson Rubric (PDF)
Wrap-up Activity:
Conducting a Mini Critique (PDF)
Students view and discuss each other’s work to wrap up the activity.
Content created by Natalie Johnston and BEAR Thomas in consultation with OAG staff.
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