Miscellaneous:
Take students pictures several times during the year.
Use them for publications they create
A “check in” board
Students can use them in presentations, documents, etc.
Assign a class photographer each week that has access to the camera. They must capture at least 1 photo of “learning in action” to be used in the weekly newsletter (they can also write a few sentences about what the class was doing).
Make alphabet books…for your class or younger students. Take pictures of things starting with each letter.
Yellowstone Online Animal Alphabet Book http://www.nps.gov/yell/kidstuff/Alphabet/a.htm
Animabets Character Book http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
Letters of the Alphabet http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/alphabet/
Student(s) form the letters themselves
Conduct a scavenger hunt. Instead of coming back with items, they come back with digital images of the items.
http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/
www.familyeducation.com/whatworks/item/ front/0,2551,1-10352-2698-1,00.html
These may give you some ideas that are safe with your students and on yourschool campus http://regions.ivcf.org/Events/2830
http://www.womentodaymagazine.com/family/photohunt.html
http://www.stonybrook.edu/orientation/sbu101/photoscavengerhunt.pdf
Remember to save your original and not write over it!
Take a Closer Look weekly digital picture puzzle http://takeacloserlook.homestead.com
Create a pictorial inventory of your classroom
Use still images to create class movies. Use iMovie for the Macs and Movie Maker for Windows XP. Some other movie programs have free 30 day downloads on the Web.
Read the book The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flourney then make your own “digital quilt”.
Make a picture cube. When asking questions, roll the cube to determine who answers the question.
Photo Prepositions - Students pose in various positions demonstrating prepositions (standing “on”, jumping “over”,etc.) Share with others and ha ve them “guess” the preposition being acted out.
Take pictures to demonstrate correct posture (typing, holding a pencil, etc.)
Use the movie option to put small clips on the class Web site, in student portfolios, presentations, etc.
Have students label pictures taken during a field trip…you shouldn’t have to do it all.
Insert student pictures into a seating chart and put in a “substitute folder”.
Put this sheet of student photos into a plastic sheet, give to students with a vis a vis or grease pencil. Students use these sheets to keep up with students they are questioning for surveys, with whom they have been partners, etc.
Language Arts
Make your own pictures for use as writing prompts.
Let students read and illustrate their own poetry.
Make a book of school/class items with English & Spanish (or other language) words for ESL/ELL students to review.
Take pictures as students act out a story. Then have them put them in the correct sequence.
Others:Block building sequence. Drawing a picture. Eating the lunch.
Make a collage of pictures of things that rhyme (cats, hats, mats, etc.)
Use them in class publications to advertise upcoming events. Newsletters, brochures, notes home, etc.
Use them in how to/demonstration writings.
Make cards for concentration games (Vocabulary, shapes, etc.)
Math Activities:
Use pictures for sorting, graphing, locating patterns. Make your own versions of Flash cards with kids art work...
Take pictures of fractions, numbers of items for counting, geometric shapes, angles, etc.
Find symmetrical objects. Cut them in half and ask the kids to draw in the missing half.
Cut pictures of students (or other items) in half, past on construction paper and have students draw the missing half
Explore the use of Math skills in professions that students want to pursue in the future. Have them bring in photos that represent the use of math in that profession.
Science Activities:
Be an advertiser—create a commercial for some aspect of your environment. Use pictures taken in presentations.
Living Together—pictures of examples of symbioses (relationships of two types of living things) in the world around you. Determine whether they are: parasites (one organism benefits at the expense of the other, ex. mosquitoes & people), commensal (one organism benefits but it is not harmful to the other, ex. birds & trees), or mutuals (both organisms benefit, ex. bees & flowers)
Collect samples of cloud types.
Decomposers —take pictures of decomposers in action. Leave some food out to mold. Take pictures daily to record what happens.
Take a picture of the weather every day from the same spot. Add those to your Daily Board activities. At the end of the year, morph the pictures together for a quick look back at the year. (This can also be done with class plants.)
Tracks or Traces—Have the students go outside and take pictures that show indirect evidence of a population of something (bird nest, footprints, cars, etc.) Discuss their work. Make a class book.
Cardinal Directions —take photos of cardinal directions in relation to the school.
Create a photo timeline —coming to school, events during the day, going to the bus, etc.
Catch a constellation - http://www.tech4learning.com/pdfs/session_handouts/constellation.pdf
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