Uses

Cameras in the Classroom

General classroom ideas:

• Enhance nametags and desk plates with students' pictures.
• Add photos to class seating charts for easy I.D. for substitutes.
• Add photos to certificates and awards, or for "Student of the Week", VIP, etc.
• Make birthday cards for students from a template and personalize with their photo.
• End of year Memory Books with photos of all classmates, or memory book with comments from classmates for students who move during the year.
• Open House displays
• Document class projects
• Personalize student gifts at Christmas, Mother's day, etc.
• To record a field trip, allowing the students to write about them at a later time
• Enhance school web sites with images.

Curriculum ideas:

• Language Arts- Use for journal writing, classroom newsletters, autobiographies, student author page in student books, biographical poems. Make ABC books with students taking a picture of something from each letter of the alphabet. Word flash cards and games with picture cues for the words. To use as a writing prompt.
• Math- documenting sorting activities, picture graphs, visual record of independent learning center activities
• Science- Make posters to illustrate a concept. Document change over a period of time- seasons, growth of a plant or pet, experiments. Go on a digital scavenger hunt, looking for examples of a given subject. To illustrate the steps in a procedure.
• Social Studies- Document field trips then have students write captions and reflections for a journal, newsletter, or bulletin board. Interview people in the school or community for a report or newsletter. Make a photo essay of historic places in our town or island. Use photos to make a map of the community. Use photos to add meaning to a timeline.
• Special Education- Take pictures of procedure steps to use as visual cues. Make sequence cards for tasks. Take pictures of students in social situations and have them express verbally or in writing what they are doing in the pictures.