Lesson Plan: Is Seeing Believing (2009)
(NOTE: This lesson plan has been prepared specifically for the SC State Department of Education and may appear
on its web site in a slightly altered form.)
Is Seeing Believing:
Visual Literacy for the 21st Century Digital Information Age
by Frank W. Baker fbaker1346@aol.com
Target grade levels: 5th-12th
Background
The digital manipulation of images is widespread: but despite what many believe, it is not a new phenomena. Images have been manipulated since the start of photography. Learning to read photographs, and to question them, is part of what is today known as
