1. Digital Cameras in the Elementary Classroom PETE & C 2010 Jamie Evans & Kevin Willson

3. RATIONALE Exposure Visual Literacy Skills All Curriculum Areas Various Learning Styles

4. Tool Capture Attention and Enthusiasm RATIONALE

5. REQUIREMENTS

6. CAMERA SAFETY

7. 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.

8. PHOTO EDITING Picknik Pixenate PhotoFiltre-- download PhotoFiltre Drpic Pixlr

9. Projects & Activities

10. STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS

11. www.bighugelabs.com Magazine cover

12. STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS RED CARPET EVENT

13. TELLING STORIES

14. PICTURES ARE WORTH 1,000 WORDS

15. KID WRITING

16. PARTS OF SPEECH NOUNS Common Proper VERBS ADJECTIVES

17. 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

18. POSSESIVE PICTURES This is Meredith’s stuffed hedgehog. This is Mark’s red car.

19. INSECT HUNT Photograph insects Identify parts of insect Print out and label Label in Word document

22. Create Writing Prompts

23. SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS Simple Machine Vegetable Racers Penguin Blubber Experiment

24. SCIENCE SCAVENGER HUNT

25. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

26. SCIENCE PROJECTS

27. Solids, Liquids and Gases

28. Solids Solids have a shape of their own.

29. Liquids Liquids do not have a shape of their own. They take the shape of their container.

30. 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?

31. SIMPLE MACHINES

32. Special Events

33. Social Studies

34. Estimating

35. Text, no title

36. SENTENCES FROM SIGNS

37. 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.

38. Triangle- A polygon with three sides. (A polygon is a closed plane figure with line segments as sides.)

39. ANGLES

40. LINES

41. GREATER THAN, LESS THAN, EQUAL TO

42. FACT FAMILIES

43. 3 – 1 = 2

44. FRACTIONS 2/5 are red 3/5 are white

45. CREATING BOOKS Use digital pictures to create books that your students write Word PowerPoint Photo Kit Jr. Lintor Publishing—hard book covers Lintor Publishing

46. Environmental ABC’s

47. C B

48. Environmental Number Books

49. 2

50. PEOPLE ABC BOOKS

51. SHADOWS AND…

52. REFLECTIONS

53. 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.

54. 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.

55. 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___

56. PICTURE POSTCARD

57. A-ROOM-WITH-A-VIEW

58. WWW. HOTPRINTS.COM

59. ONLINE SITES BIGHUGELABS.COM Badge maker—special days Motivator Trading Card CD Cover Creator Captioner—add speech bubbles to pictures Billboards

60. 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

61. ONLINE SITES Scrapblog Blabberize Slide Animoto

62. CONTACT INFORMATION Jamie Evans jevans@yssd.org Kevin Willson kwillson@yssd.org Resources http://http://yselementarytech.wikispaces.com

63. ACT 48 IL302306