Projects allow students to demonstrate competence and understanding of concepts and skills by completing a career-related task. For example, the assignment might be to create a mural, a package design, a speech, a film review, or a movie set – you name it! These creative projects are about applying your learning acquired through in-depth research to real-world career tasks.
Each competency will be addressed through a project that is based on a real-life career task. Here are the careers you will explore in Digital Photography 2: Event Planner, Athletic Scout, Fine Artist, and City Recreation Employee.
Please also review the competency statements to learn more about the major topics and concepts covered in this offering.
You will take on the role of a meeting, convention, and event planner for a restaurant that does catering. You will create a portfolio that features food the restaurant serves at catering events.
You will take on the role of a scout for an athletic organization tasked with creating a portfolio of photographs of possible recruits that can be shared with other members of the organization.
You will take on the role of an independent Fine Artist, tasked with taking photos for an exhibition of your work that will be showcased at a local museum.
Yu will take on the role of a Recreation Worker for a town, tasked with creating a portfolio of photographs of events in your community.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of event photography by differentiating posed and candid photography, evaluating techniques to capture memorable moments, and taking photographs of an event.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of fine art photography by analyzing subject matter in fine art photography, evaluating composition, and taking fine art photographs based on one concept or subject.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of food photography by analyzing food styling, lighting, and composition techniques in food photography, and creating original photographs of food.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of sports photography by explaining techniques used to capture the action and emotions of competition, evaluating compositions by professional sports photographers, and creating photographs that document athletic activities.
Experiences allow you to explore a career field you’re curious about while mastering competencies for school credit. Through career-focused experiential learning, you will develop and learn skills for application to tasks typically completed as part of a career rather than using traditional assessments like essays or tests. During your Experience, you’ll work with a professional in the field to support your learning whom we call an “outside expert.” You’ll earn a badge for your accomplishments to share on social media and higher education platforms, or with colleges, potential employers, peers, and colleagues to display your qualifications.
Here’s how Experiences work:
Here’s an example:
Let’s say you’re curious about a career in healthcare. You decide you’d like to learn about this career area, make a professional connection, earn a badge, and meet competencies for your 9th-grade English requirement. While enrolled in English 1 Experiences, you conduct research to better understand language and structure in writing. Then you may work with an Occupational Therapist to help apply your writing skills to create an informational video about adaptive equipment for patients. The video aims to advise family members of patients regarding the use of accommodations and equipment to help patients perform daily tasks. Now you’ve earned the Language and Structure in Writing competency! This is just one example of the many ways Experiences can bridge competencies to careers.
Obtaining an Outside Expert: Prior to enrollment, please have an idea for an outside expert in mind or consult with our counseling department by emailing [email protected] for help in identifying one.
*A parent/guardian permission form and background check of the outside expert are both required to work with outside experts without parental supervision.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of event photography by differentiating posed and candid photography, evaluating techniques to capture memorable moments, and taking photographs of an event.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of fine art photography by analyzing subject matter in fine art photography, evaluating composition, and taking fine art photographs based on one concept or subject.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of food photography by analyzing food styling, lighting, and composition techniques in food photography, and creating original photographs of food.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of sports photography by explaining techniques used to capture the action and emotions of competition, evaluating compositions by professional sports photographers, and creating photographs that document athletic activities.