Andy,
History of Photography from the earliest beginnings to the present day would provide you with plenty of 'hands on' opportunities to involve the youngsters. The present day with digital imaging in the lab is obvious (throw some of the latest Cassini images of Titan at them amongst other things which will involve you with the infrared and radar!) but they would probably love to build simple camera obscuras and how about sensitising of print out paper and after exposing beneath various objects expose to light to demonstrate the need over many decades for a fixer etc? Elementary chemistry. Get them to stage a play in which you recreate a Victorian portrait studio with the neck brace at the back because of the lengthy exposures (with their teacher as the victim in the chair?). For a non-commercial use I'm sure you could find some reproductions on the www. of portraits of the pioneers (Wedgewood, Talbot, Daguerre, Archer etc) and some of the shots they took. Quite a lot of practical involvement could be involved which presumably is desirable.
Douglas A.
This may prove to be a fun question. I was asked to present a 2 hour
seminar to middle school kids(ages 13-14)...any topic(photography
related) and I probably will have access to a computer lab. Any
thoughts on what I might offer?
- -- Andy D'Angelo
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