All our humanities projects and lesson plans leverage digital tools and media to bolster creativity and to engage students in new ways. Adobe’s digital approach to learning allows you to incorporate 21st century skills and competencies into the humanities classroom to create a more dynamic learning environment.
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Browse our free collection of digital humanities projects designed to immerse students in creative literature, arts, history, and language activities.
Create a web page to share speculative fiction writing
Students use Adobe Spark to respond to different stimuli as they speculate about the future.
Create a video to explain historical context for a literary work
Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to explain the relevance of a literary work's historical context.
Film a video confessional to understand character perspectives
Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to write and film vlog-style confessionals for literary characters.
Film a short video to reflect on how bias shapes texts
Students use Adobe Spark to explore how bias shapes the writing and reception of literature.
Illustrate a poster to represent a poem visually
Students use Adobe Spark to visualize and reflect on pieces of poetry.
Create a poster to identify a character archetype
Students use Adobe Spark to consider literary characters in novels or plays as archetypes.
Create a portfolio to showcase your best written work
Students use Adobe Portfolio to collect and present their best writing.
Create a self-portrait exploring identity and self-expression
Students use Adobe Photoshop to explore how they and others define their identities.
Film a video profile of an important literary character
Students use Adobe Spark to profile characters from literature they've recently read.
Redesign a book cover to illustrate important themes
Students use Adobe InDesign to identify and visualize important themes in pieces of literature.
Annotate a document to understand literary lenses
Students use Adobe Acrobat and a literary text to create interactive multimedia projects.
Annotate and reflect on a nonfiction document
Students use Adobe Acrobat Reader to annotate an article and share their thinking.
Produce a video essay to analyze a music video
Students use Adobe Spark to analyze music videos in relationship to society, politics, and culture.
Produce a simple video exploring your life as a reader
Students use Adobe Spark to chronicle their personal reading journeys.
Film a video to create an interactive museum kiosk
Students use Adobe Spark to create videos to be featured in an interactive museum kiosk.
Design a poster to analyze a podcast
Students use Adobe Spark to create graphics showing how podcasts engage listeners.
Develop a web page to publish a movie review
Students use Adobe Spark to publish movie review interviews of favorite films.
Create a web page to plan the first act of your story
Students use Adobe Spark to outline the first act of a story.
Design a web page to present a creative book review
Students use Adobe Spark to evaluate books and create book reviews.
Mock up a text message exchange between literary characters
Students use Adobe Photoshop to analyze how literary characters would interact about an event.
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Unique, exciting, and creative resources for humanities classes
In this collection of exciting educational resources designed by and for educators, students consider the complexities of social relationships, governments, societies, and the human experience. Our humanities projects span a number of topics, including history, arts, music, language, and philosophy, to name a few. Each resource is carefully designed to captivate students’ attention and create fun and engaging humanities classes for students at all levels.
This collection of humanities projects includes resources for a wide variety of academic subjects, project types, and teaching styles. History and social science teachers will find creative digital humanities projects to help students dive into the past, present, and future with excitement; while literature, rhetoric, or philosophy instructors can help students learn to express complex ideas through humanities projects built around presentations, podcasts, and videos. Through creative projects featuring Adobe’s easy-to-use suite of digital tools, humanities students will also strengthen their research, writing, and critical-thinking skills. And most importantly, each activity or lesson plan can easily flex or adapt to different content areas or project types — so you can mix and match content and project types to find the perfect fit for your teaching style and classroom.
Spark students’ imagination with our digital humanities projects
Our digital humanities projects motivate students to engage in critical thinking to gain a deeper understanding of complex social issues, historical events, or pieces of literature. Working with digital tools can help students to not just learn content, but also to build important skills and abilities to support their long-term development, like effective communication, digital literacy, and comfort with both independent work and collaboration. For example, young students can learn about how cultures develop by creating videos to showcase their understanding, and higher education students can work to identify the transformative role religion played in the development of communities over time by recording a researched podcast. Whether you’re teaching humanities online or in the classroom, scan our curations to find exciting resources and spark your students’ imaginations.
Because Adobe believes in creativity for all, these humanities projects make encouraging student creativity and engagement a top priority, from the first step to the final presentation. And best of all, each and every one of these resources is not only completely free, but can easily be adapted for use with any of Adobe’s free tools or with the software license type your school or district already has. Whether you’re an elementary teacher looking to inspire young learners or you're teaching high school humanities classes, Adobe Education Exchange resources allow students to grow beyond disciplinary skills and content knowledge.
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A fun and engaging humanities class could incorporate digital storytelling, one of the most important modes for sharing ideas. Art and design disciplines teach design thinking and promote a creative learning environment. Introduce our unique humanities projects into your curriculum and challenge students to learn content more deeply through the use of different digital tools.
Humanities classes focus on the complexities of societies and how we understand them over time. These immersive learning opportunities teach students to express their relationship with society and ensure students are active participants and engaged citizens. Students can creatively learn about the importance of local community, international civic life, and how we're all part of creating a shared future, allowing students of all ages to gain insight into the past and our present day, while opening the doors to imagine the future.