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 Applications for the Classroom -
- Call it "Counting on Friends" or
"Count on Me" or some other cute title. Kindergarten.
Put one child in a photo. Two friends in a photo. Three, etc. Keep in
mind that film is not an expense. Go Crazy! Four Friends Dressed in
Yellow. Three Girls and Two Boys Makes Five Friends at the Lunch Table.
Take the picture and let the kids create the captions, or give the kids
the caption and let them take the pictures (and then explain
them).
- Create a photo journal of a field trip.
- Can you find a few spiders to take pictures
of? Itsy, Bitsy Spider...
- Use images in a school newspaper.
- Create a photo journal of vocabulary items for
ESOL.
- Create a photo journal of classroom activities
for year end reminiscing.
- Create a photo journal to share technology
success stories - and pave the way to getting more money for technology!
- Create a video yearbook.
- Greet new students in school by posting their
photos.
- Introduce faculty and staff at new teacher
orientation.
- Make Secretaries Day special with a "Day
in a Life of a Secretary"
- Send young students out to capture pictures of
Over, Under, Beside, Between, or colors or shapes or numbers or ...
- Create sequence stories that integrate
language and science: - these five pictures tell a story - you take the
pictures then have students write it. Or as a TEKS activity let students
take 5 pictures and create the sequence story. Example: acorn, sprout,
sapling, mature oak, decayed log.
- Take school yard pictures that show before and
after shots of a campus beautification project.
- Strengthen art activities by finding examples
of color, line, texture, shape, form, etc. in your classroom building or
campus. The next time students see these common objects they will see
them from a different perspective and will have common, familiar
reminders.
- Work on perspective by having students take
pictures of an object from many different points of view. Show the slides
on a large monitor and have students discuss impact of position. Have
you seen the CD called ArtRageous? It is a good resource for art
teachers and teachers who wish to integrate art in their core courses.
- Use a digital camera to record what is happening
day to day, bread molding, an art project being created, construction or
renovation in your school building, the length of shadows on the hour
each day - this will amaze the students.
- Use pictures as story starters.
- Use pictures in Science Fair projects.
- Can your students take one picture in which
they can see applications to what they are studying in Math, Science,
Social Studies, or Language Arts? Sure, the trick is explaining is it.
It is also the critical thinking you seek.
- Use the camera to talk to the
students about old sayings, starting with "a picture is worth a
thousand words."
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