Jenny Welty
Digital Camera Grant
Materials:
1 Nikon Coolpix 5.1
Mega pixel and 3x Zoom
3 Kodak Easyshare
C300 3.2 Mega pixel and 2x digital zoom
1 hP Photosmart 385
portable printer
4 memory cards
6th
Grade:
¯ Welcome Pictures—Individual student
pictures to put immediately onto a bulletin board to make everyone fill they
are apart of the class
¯ Plays—Individual student pictures with
characters names attached and sequential pictures of the process the class went
through until they got to the performance
¯ Re-acting/Newspaper—Pictures of students
reacting a scene from a book, history, science, or other content that allows
the students to create still-digital pictures that show the information
learned. Newspaper captions can be added along with a newspaper article.
¯ Outdoor School Experience—Document the
Outdoor School camp for the class and have students give presentations about
what they learned and show use to show the upcoming 6th graders what
Outdoor School is all about
¯ Field Trips—Split the cameras up among
groups and different groups capture what they say. Presentations can be made
the following days.
8th
Grade:
¯ Document Camera Replacement: Take a picture of
a document (student made or resource) and show to class through a
projector (Hint: CameraÕs with D/V
Out accessibility is the best)
¯ Scavenger Hunts: Groups of students take a
camera and hunt for examples of the content (Math Ideas) and then use as a
presentation
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Transformations
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Symmetry
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Angles
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Geometry
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Potential Word
Problem Situations
2nd
Grade:
¯ Scavenger Hunts: Groups of student hunt for
items around the classroom or outside
¯ Examples: Pictures of examples of vocabulary
words or main ideas that will help students to remember what words mean
¯ Get To Know You Corner: Individual pictures of
students along with a biography to help students get to know their classmates
better