Educational Resources
Discover educational resources that extend the dialogue and provide space for audiences of all ages to connect directly with Aperture titles, exchange ideas, and form meaningful interpretations.
Aperture On Sight is designed to teach visual literacy through working with photography and creating photobooks. The curriculum combines art, visual and media literacy, and technology lessons.
Curricula and Learning Guides
Aperture On Sight
Aperture On Sight is a hands-on, in-depth curriculum designed to build visual literacy skills through digital photography, storytelling, and photobook creation.
Learning Guide: The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole
This resource is intended to inform educators about the exhibition and book, “Ernest Cole: The True America,” so they are better able to lead students of all ages in meaningful discussions surrounding its content.
The Colors We Share | Grades K–6
“The Colors We Share” curriculum utilizes photographer Angélica Dass’s work to foster reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and self-empowerment for students.
Learning Guide: Aperture 240, “Native America”
This resource accompanies Aperture magazine’s “Native America” issue, and it is intended for use by educators to provide themes, topics, and analysis of selected works to spark in-depth discussions, administer visual literacy, and lend additional contextual information.
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