Digital Cameras in the Elementary Classroom PETE & C 2010 Jamie Evans & Kevin Willson
RATIONALE Exposure Visual Literacy Skills All Curriculum Areas Various Learning Styles
Tool Capture Attention and Enthusiasm RATIONALE
REQUIREMENTS
CAMERA SAFETY
Today’s students have been exposed to digital and video images all of their lives. The need for visual literacy skills rivals the need for traditional literacy. Activities and projects completed with digital images compliment all curriculum areas and most learning styles, especially visual and kinesthetic.
PHOTO EDITING Picknik Pixenate PhotoFiltre-- download PhotoFiltre Drpic Pixlr
Projects & Activities
STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS
Magazine cover
STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS RED CARPET EVENT
TELLING STORIES
PICTURES ARE WORTH 1,000 WORDS
KID WRITING
PARTS OF SPEECH NOUNS Common Proper VERBS ADJECTIVES
PICTURE PERFECT PARAGRAPH A picture is worth a THOUSAND words! Use a picture that you have taken. Look at it closely, because you will need to describe the picture as if your audience cannot see it in front of them. Include the following: Powerful Nouns Vivid Verbs Amazing Adjectives Awesome Adverbs At least one simile
POSSESIVE PICTURES This is Meredith’s stuffed hedgehog. This is Mark’s red car.
INSECT HUNT Photograph insects Identify parts of insect Print out and label Label in Word document
Create Writing Prompts
SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS Simple Machine Vegetable Racers Penguin Blubber Experiment
SCIENCE SCAVENGER HUNT
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
SCIENCE PROJECTS
Solids, Liquids and Gases
Solids Solids have a shape of their own.
Liquids Liquids do not have a shape of their own. They take the shape of their container.
Name That Animal Use photos to show the different parts of an animal in isolation. Let the students guess what animal it is. Why did they guess that animal?
SIMPLE MACHINES
Special Events
Social Studies
Estimating
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SENTENCES FROM SIGNS
GEOMETRY Take students on a walking field trip through your community. Have the students look for and photograph any objects they find that are examples of geometric concepts.
Triangle- A polygon with three sides. (A polygon is a closed plane figure with line segments as sides.)
ANGLES
LINES
GREATER THAN, LESS THAN, EQUAL TO
FACT FAMILIES
3 – 1 = 2
FRACTIONS 2/5 are red 3/5 are white
CREATING BOOKS Use digital pictures to create books that your students write Word PowerPoint Photo Kit Jr. Lintor Publishing—hard book covers Lintor Publishing
Environmental ABC’s
C B
Environmental Number Books
2
PEOPLE ABC BOOKS
SHADOWS AND…
REFLECTIONS
THE BEST PART OF ME by:Wendy Ewald The best part of me is my hair because if I didn’t have hair I would have to wear a hat to school every day. My best part of me is my hand because I can play a game.
My Legs I like my legs because they are flexible. I like my legs because they allow me to run. I like my legs because they are long. I like my legs because they allow me to walk. I like my legs because I was born with them. I like my legs because they are skinny. I like my legs because they are cute.
100 TH DAY BOOK—I CAN Students take pictures of each other engaged in daily tasks for a book about things they can now do on day 100. I can use a camera, I can read, I am writing, I can count to___
PICTURE POSTCARD
A-ROOM-WITH-A-VIEW
WWW. HOTPRINTS.COM
ONLINE SITES BIGHUGELABS.COM Badge maker—special days Motivator Trading Card CD Cover Creator Captioner—add speech bubbles to pictures Billboards
ONLINE SITES ALA Read Poster Maker Block Posters—create large wall posters Block Posters Photo Notes—turn pics into polaroids with text Photo Notes PostcardFM—send audio postcard PostcardFM Lulu Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Winkflash—hosting pictures
ONLINE SITES Scrapblog Blabberize Slide Animoto
CONTACT INFORMATION Jamie Evans Kevin Willson Resources
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