Digital Cameras in the Elementary Classroom

PETE & C 2010Jamie 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 Drpic Pixlr

Projects &

Activities

STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS

STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS www.bighugelabs.co

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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 EXPERIMENTSSimple MachineVegetable 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 red3/5 are white

CREATING BOOKS

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

Environmental ABC’s

C

B

Environmental

Number Books

2

PEOPLE ABC BOOKS

SHADOWS AND…

REFLECTIONS

THE BEST PART OF MEby: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.

100TH 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 Photo Notes—turn pics into polaroids

with text PostcardFM—send audio postcard Lulu Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Winkflash—

hosting pictures

ONLINE SITES

Scrapblog Blabberize Slide Animoto

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jamie Evans jevans@yssd.org

Kevin Willson kwillson@yssd.org

Resources http://http://

yselementarytech.wikispaces.com

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