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Enhancing Social Skills and Vocabulary through Photography

For Teachers K - 5th
Students in a special education classroom identify pictures of various living things. In groups, they role-play different roles to help them with their social and communication skills. To end the lesson, they take pictures of different...
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Second Grade Science Textbooks

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create their own science textbooks. They work in small, cooperative science teams to plan and create their textbooks. In addition, they photograph their group work, projects, materials and specimens, and other images.
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Marty and Me

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read 'Marty and Me' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. They compare their lives with Marty's life, which in most cases, is very different. They find similarities and differences and create a montage. They include information about...
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Musical Forms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in an activity that is creating a video to accompany a chosen piece of music. They create a storyboard in order to plan out the video shooting. Then students listen to the music while filming takes place. Then they use...
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Invasive Species

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Pupils explore invasive species. In this species analysis lesson, students observe invasive species and review the impact the species have on the environment. Pupils work in groups to investigate the species in varying habitats. Students...
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Time and Motion on Track

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students create a motion diagram for a distance and motion project. In this time and motion lesson, students take turns walking around the track and take pictures of their motion. Students measure the distances and determine...
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Egg Hatching into Sequencing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils create an egg. In this language arts instructional activity, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Pupils write about the sequence of the hatching.
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A Change of Climate

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research various sources to learn about global warming. They then create a multimedia presentation about global warming. They take a stance on the issue and present that as well.
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The Rule of Thirds

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars identify the rule of thirds and use it when taking photos. In this photography lesson, students discuss dynamic photography and find example images from various sources. Young scholars discuss the rule of thirds and...
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Alex: What Is It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
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Digital Imaging in Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
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Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
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Alex: Photography: Past to Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In the lesson, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
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Alex: On the Loose With Dr. Seuss

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will survey teachers in order to find out the titles of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of each teacher and his/her favorite book.
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Alex: Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
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Alex: What Are You Wearing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
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Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
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Alex: That's the Story!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This is a fun lesson where the students use thinksheets and digital cameras. The students take an "interesting" picture using the digital camera. After they have printed them they are given at random another student's picture. They write...
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Alex: Picturing Parts of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson students use digital cameras to take pictures which illustrate various parts of speech, then insert the pictures into a digital slideshow presentation and write sentences about the pictures.
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Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
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Alex: Angle Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will explore straight, right, acute, and obtuse angles. Students will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the school to search for examples of these types of angles. The students will use digital cameras to record...
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Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Alex: Machines All Around Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student will examine different rooms in the school looking for simple machines. They will use digital cameras to take pictures of the simple machine they have found in the school and Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation of their...

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