Starter quiz
- Photography is the process of taking a photograph.
- True ✓
- False
- A camera is used to ...
- take a photograph. ✓
- paint a picture.
- watch a TV show.
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- How long ago was photography invented?
- 2 years ago
- 20 years ago
- 200 years ago ✓
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- Match the word to the definition.
- historian⇔someone who studies and writes about the past ✓
- photographer⇔someone who takes photographs ✓
- Someone who studies and writes about the past is called ...
- a teacher.
- a photographer.
- an historian. ✓
- an explorer.
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- A picture created by a camera is called ...
- a painting.
- a sketch.
- a photograph. ✓
- a drawing.
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Exit quiz
- Match the word to the meaning.
- camera film⇔a roll of plastic coated with chemicals that is used to develop photos ✓
- chemical⇔a substance used in or produced by a chemical process ✓
- developed⇔when photographs are made ready for people to see ✓
- When was the first photograph taken?
- 200 days ago
- 200 weeks ago
- 200 years ago ✓
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- Match the camera to the correct description.
- polaroid camera⇔prints out photographs immediately ✓
- digital camera⇔shows you photographs on a screen ✓
- In the past photography was ...
- slow. ✓
- quick.
- expensive. ✓
- cheap.
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- In the past you needed ______ and special equipment to get photographs developed.
- chemicals ✓
- light
- a mobile phone
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- Put the cameras in order of when they were developed. Start with the earliest.
- 1⇔film camera
- 2⇔digital
- 3⇔phone
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Early photography was not like photography today, which is quick, easy and available to everyone.
- Not everyone could afford a photographer to take their picture, but it was still cheaper than having someone paint you.
- Early cameras were complicated, big and bulky compared to today's cameras and smartphones that can take photographs.
- Early cameras took a long time to take a photo, meaning people sitting for photographs had to stay very still.
- Early photographs had to be developed using very complex processes involving chemicals and equipment.
Common misconception
Pupils may assume that people in the past used phones and tablets to take photographs.
Show pupils the various devices that have been used in the past to take photographs and how they have evolved.
Keywords
Developed - Photographs taken with old cameras had to be developed using camera film and special liquids to make prints of the image on paper.
Camera film - camera film is a roll of plastic that is stored inside the camera.
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