• Photo-Seminars.com: Technical instruction on assorted topics.
• School of Photography.com: Online courses.

"Let’s Make a Better Picture: Teaching Photography as Science and Art to First Graders": From the Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice, a refereed journal published by Lesley University, this paper by Sylvia Sensiper, M.A., Ph.D., describing in great detail a program at a K-8 school in Cambridge, Mass. (PDF download)
"Photography and Children: The Transgressive Quality of Teaching Children How to Represent Themselves": Discussion by Lori Ungemah of her experience teaching in the Literacy Through Photography program (see above). From the journal Extimacy, published by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
"Photography and Therapy": First-hand account by Alex Fattal of his work with a program for children in Zaire. From the journal ChildrenFIRST, Issue 56 (July/August 2004).
"Photography in Education": Paper by Ravi Chopra. From the book The Cultural Dimension of Education, edited by Baidyanath Saraswati (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1998).
"Photography Workshops and Expositions by children from the Cape-Vert archipelago": Describes a 2003 project that "consists of organising workshops on photographic creation with street children from Cape Verde, animated by young photographers and local artists." Report by Mélanie Barthélemy, from LEA International: Links to Education and Art, sponsored by UNESCO. In French. (PDF download)
"Photography workshop at Monte Alto Junior High School exposes students to renowned photographer": Report on a project in the El Paso, Texas school system. (PDF download)
Self-Discovery Through Photography Workshop: Describes a 2001 project created by Miren Creixell at the Juanita Apartment School in Seattle, Washington. (PDF download)
"Summer Arts Study in Pinhole Photography Makes Indelible Impressions on Young Students": This report on a succesful program at the Brooklyn Friends School in 2003 includes basic instructions on making a pinhole camera.

• Adobe Education: This software manufacturer posts a considerable amount of K-12 photo ed-related material at its site, including instructional material, lesson plans, and even more ambitious semester-long curricula. They've also created a Digital Kids Club section of the site.
• Borneo Teacher’s Guide: Kids Across the World, A Photographic Journey: Credited to Literacy Through Photography, this lesson plan concerns the life of a boy in Borneo, but is really about reading photographs. (PDF download)
• Kodak Lesson Plans: Hidden away on the Kodak website, inaccessible through the site's search engine via any terms we could find, and with defective links at the bottom of each plan page, we discovered (purely by chance, via Google) a veritable treasure trove of K-12 photo-ed lesson plans: 146 in all. Apparently submitted by teachers through some unspecified process, each one indicates the authors thereof, academic subjects to which it's relevant, and the grades for which it's appropriate. Plus a good, clear description and report on results. Looks like some fine stuff here. If any volunteer wants to try to find out when and where these came from, whether there's an index of them with synopses online, etc., please do so and let us know. Perhaps Kodak could be persuaded to upgrade their presentation of these, and make them more accessible. Meanwhile, the only way to navigate them is to go to one and, to get to another, change the lesson plan number in the URL field of your browser. We suggest starting with "Know Your Town; Let Your Town Know You!" by Katherine Coady and Howard Herbert, the last in the series, and then working your way backward by changing the URL to read ". . . /lessonPlans/lessonPlan145.shtml," etc. (Note: We did discover one index page for Special Education Lesson Plans at this site.)
• National Archives: The National Archives of the United States offers, at its website, an excellent set of Teaching with Documents Lesson Plans, many of them involving photographs by such figures as Lewis Hine.
• New Deal Network: Offers two lesson plans based on the social-documentary work of photographer Rondal Partridge (son of photographer Imogen Cunningham).
• New York Times — Photojournalism: Lesson plans for grades 6-12, based on current/recent articles in the Times. Created by The NYT Learning Network. (Note: These lesson plans get replaced over time. If you find one you want to continue using, download it and its related materials for archiving.)
• NoodleTools.com: Recommended lesson plans here include "The More You Look, The More You See: Creating a Turn-of-the-Century Child" by Debbie Abilock & Cynthia Hirsch Kosut, which uses old photos to teach research skills, visual literacy, and more, and "Reading Media Photographs" by Abilock.
• PBS TeacherSource: The Arts & Literature section of this site contains lesson plans based on PBS programs suitable for various grade levels, including ones on Robert Capa, Sally Mann, and W. Eugene Smith.
• "Slide-Tape Dramatization as a Way of Teaching Literature": by Robert J. Winters, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
• Stereo Photography: Clear, self-explanatory account of a one-day stereo photography class conducted by artist Virginia A. Moore and stereo photographer Stuart Stiles in 2004. Well-illustrated.
• "Ten ways to use the digital camera in RE [Religious Education] ": Smart ideas, from which one can extrapolate to nonsectarian applications.
• YouthLearn: This site offers several excellent lesson plans for photography projects, plus others on video, PowerPoint and dfferent presentation methods, and even critical thinking.

Information

• Apogee Photo: Self-described as "the Internet's photography magazine . . . designed to inform and entertain photographers of all ages and levels," Apogee includes interviews, profiles, and articles on technical subjects, some of them in a "Young People's Photography Archives."
• American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP): Advisories on copyright, model releases, what professionals expect from assistants, and more. For secondary-school level teachers and students.
• Freestyle Teachers' Lounge: Free registration at this site for the noted distributors of tools and materials gives you access to charts, video clips of demonstrations, and other materials, including a "Holga Manual" (PDF download).
• The Masters of Photography site has good basic biographies of numerous important figures, plus portfolios of representative images for many of them.
• Nikon Campus: produced for Nikon by PDN Edu (see below), edited by Jill Waterman, this Nikon site for photo education provides PDF downloads on assorted topics, plus profiles of selected professionals, q&a sessions with them, and more. For secondary-school level teachers and students.
• PDN Edu: published by Photo District News, PDN Edu appears twice a year. This publication's website includes useful PDF downloads for classroom distribution, a blog with material not in the magazine, and a links page with connections to numerous college-level photo programs.
• Photography: Peter Marshall's section of About.com is probably the best single online source for information on a wide range of matters photographic, from technical issues to biographies of photographers to discussions of various forms, movements, and tendencies. Written in easy-to-read, non-jargonized language, accessible to just about anyone.
• The Photography Criticism CyberArchive: Founded and directed by critic and historian A. D. Coleman, this is the largest online archive of writings about photography from by authors from Talbot and Daguerre through the present. Subscription-based. Query for subsidized access. For secondary-school level teachers and students.
• PhotoWings, created by photographer Susan Katz, is another extremely valuable repository of and portal to large quantities of information. The site's deep links to images and texts online elsewhere will connect you to a wealth of fascinating material for you and your students to explore.

George Ancona: Video clips of an interview with this engaging Mexican-American photographer, who talks about learning photography from his father and the making of his books for kids, which explore the everyday lives of children from different cultures.
APTE, Inc.: This company creates kid-friendly photo-ed software, marketed stand-alone or bundled with digital cameras. Its site also includes a "Digital Photography Resource Center" with some basic but helpful information and suggestions on using digital photography in the classroom -- even ideas on fundraising to buy the necessary tools and materials. They'll also send you a free monthly newsletter with tips.
"I Am Your Child's Teacher": Audio commentary on "Invisible Students" from Alexa Overby, photography teacher at Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Arizona. From radio station KJZZ in Tempe, Arizona, part of an NPR series.
Mac On Campus: This site requires registration (free) for faculty and students. You can then post profiles of yourself, samples of work, and use its forum.
Olympus Donates Digital Cameras: Press release from Olympus Imaging America (OIA) describes donation of digital cameras to Philadelphia's Clara Barton Elementary School, "a multi-ethnic, multi-racial K-4 learning environment." Purpose of the donation: "to enhance visual learning and innovative technology usage."
"Photo Fakes": Short, simple tutorial from National Geographic Kids.
SimCam Film and Digital Camera Simulator: Online "camera" designed to teach basic photographic principles. Enables you to vary shutter speed, aperture, film speed, and see the results.
StereoPhoto Maker(SPM): Free applet download functions both as a versatile stereo image editor and stereo image viewer. Site in English, French, German, and Japanese.
TeachingResource.co.uk: More good photo-ed links at this page from this UK organization.
USC Francophone Resource Center: Brief description of a Spring 2006 program conducted by photographer Olivier Culmann at the University of Southern California.
Visual Literacy Links Page: Many useful links to lesson plans and other material at this page.