Digital Camera Ideas

I love the idea of using camera's in the classroom. It creates an amazing hands on experience for my students. I think by taking pictures the students will internalize the concepts so much better and remember them for a lot longer than just simply doing a worksheet or something like that.

Language Arts

For Language Arts it would be fun to have the students make their won ABC books. To do this they could go around the school, their home, and the community to either find the different letters or find different objects that start with that letter. When they have compiled all their pictures they can upload  them onto the computer and use their creativity to create a personalized ABC book.

Math

I think the best use of cameras in math is to have the students go out and find shapes in the school. It is a much more visual way for the students to apply the fact that everything is basically made out of shapes. The students could go around and take photos of different shapes they find. After they have the photos they could either make a PowerPoint presentation describing each of the shapes, or they can create a poster of all the pictures and name each of the shapes.

Social Studies

In Social Studies we study different cultures and events that happened in history. I think a fun way to help the students remember these events and cultures would be to "recreate" the scene. For instance, the student could "recreate" the scene of the Boston Tea Party. They could use boxes from home as the tea and create a fort that represents the ship. They could pose for the picture like they were throwing the tea into the harbor. Another example would be to represent a specific culture, like Ancient Greece. The student could take a photo their classmate posing like they are about to throw a discus, just like the Ancient Grecian's did in the first Olympic Games.

One they students have taken their photo they will edit it and make a poster describing what culture or event their photo represents.

Science

In Science we will be doing a lot of experiments. A great way for the students to remember their findings and what they learned from the experiment would be to take photos throughout the experiment. Once the students have completed the experiment they can take the data they have gained and the photos and create a presentation explaining their findings.