Digital Cameras in The Classroom
Miller, who uses digital cameras with students in grades K-5, offered the following suggestions for digital camera projects:
- Snap pictures of body parts and allow students to make puzzles with them.
- Photograph important places in the school, such as the main office, nurse’s office, and media center, and display the photos to help students visually identify key places in the school.
- Photograph parts of the daily routine and using them for sequencing activities.
- Photograph objects that are the same color.
- Take pictures of students and let them make trading cards with facts about themselves. Print the pictures and let students write basic favorites or facts. This is a good activity for the beginning of the year when they’re getting to know one another.
- Take pictures to represent nouns, or of students in action to show verbs.
- Take pictures related to whatever topic you’re studying. Display the pictures and have students write journal articles or short stories about them. The pictures provide a good visual prompt for creative writing.
- If you really want to be creative, let students save pictures of their favorite cartoon characters. Have them take pictures of their own faces. Then, using a graphics-editing program, let students brush out the character’s face and insert their own.
Ideas for Using a Digital Camera
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