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Workshop Lesson: Digital Camera
Young scholars perform an activity in small groups in order to investigate different types of shapes found in photographs taken with a digital camera. The integration of technology is used to engage students in the lesson.
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Digital Smiles
Explore metric measurement, recording data, and creating an electronic spreadsheet displaying results with your math class. Scholars will measure the length of their smiles, record the measurements, and represent the results on an...
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Digital Images: From Satellites To The Internet
Learners examine digital images and how satellites orbiting Earth send information and pictures to Earth over the Internet. They use a digital camera to put pictures on a computer and decode a satellite image from space.
Newspaper Association of America
Power Pack: Lessons in Civics, Math, and Fine Arts
Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions...
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"Who am I?"
Pupils of all ages work in pairs to find information about themselves and record a digital "Who am I?" They observe and measure each other, write clues, and illustrate before having others guess who is described.
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Know Your Angles
Explore types of angles and the characteristics of each. After observing a PowerPoint Presentation, learners tour the school facilities and use a digital camera to capture prescribed angles. Using the digital pictures and written...
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Real World Equations!
Help your math class "get the picture" in a quadratic equation lesson that integrates digital photography. Individuals take pictures to help them model the shape of an item or situation using algebraic equations. They discover how to...
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Catholic Schools in the Community
Students are provided with a multimedia Power Point presentation that explains the educational opportunities that are available at the St. Mary Catholic School. They are presented with all facts along with the community as a whole and...
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Shapes and Colors All Around
Students tour their school in a scavenger hunt to find primary colors and two and three-dimensional shapes.  Students take digital pictures of the colors and shapes they find and create a class book of the pictures.
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Polygons in Real Life
Fourth graders identify and label different types of polygons in real life situations.  Using a digital camera, they take pictures of polygons on the school grounds, tally the number of shapes found, and answer discussion questions.
Richland County School District One
Falling Into Geometry Through Paper Art
New-to-school learners create a fall quilt consisting of three different paper geometric quilt squares. They use various geometric shapes that when assembled will form a scarecrow, pumpkin, and a crow. Assembly will require sorting...
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Angles All Around Us
Explore with your class the characteristics of acute, obtuse, right, complementary, and supplementary angles. They take digital photographs around the school and identify the angles in the images. Uisng software, they label and...
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Podcasting Parabolas
Learners explore parabolas.  In this algebra and technology instructional activity, students construct the equation of a specific parabola, then take digital photos of real-life representations of these parabolas.  Learners...
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A Weigh we Go!
Here are some cross-curricular activities whil should help your kids understnad weight measurements and grammar. In this grammar and math instructional activity, students read the book Skittles Riddles and practice counting and balancing...
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Mother Nature Pattern Maker
Students in a teacher education program enhance their awareness of patterns.  They discover how to support their students in developing this skill in mathematical terms.  They role play the role of a K-2 student and collect images from...
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Chucky Chickadee's Bird and Breakfast: Sing in Please
Learners observe bird feeding and complete a tally and graphing activity for their observations. In this bird graphing lesson, students work in teams to observe bird feedings. Learners complete a bird reporting sheet and collect data...
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Lining Up the Cars
Students review how to count the total amount of arrangements using multiplication. Using a computer, they determine the amount of cars needed for a parade in their local community to move the town's officials. They identify any patterns...
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Geometric Figures
Students identify two and three dimensional shapes and use appropriate geometric vocabulary to write a description of the figure by taking pictures of geometric figures in their own environment.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Sixth graders work to write questions for a class survey. For this survey lesson, 6th graders survey their class members by asking the 4 questions they developed and will record their answers on the culminating assessment...
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Kindergarten Money
Students identify the various coins and their values through presentations, a rubric, a value pretest, and coin manipulatives. Money is incorporated into various activities whether at home or in school. Students create money webs using...
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A Snap at Geometry
Students study geometric images and polyhedrons. In this geometry lesson, students complete several activities to learn about geometric shapes and classify polyhedrons from polygons. Students watch a video, complete a web-directed...
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Going "Diggie" with Math Word Problems
Sixth graders create word problems. In this sixth grade mathematics lesson, 6th graders use digital cameras to photograph interesting events around school and create word problems for their photographs that address the key concepts...
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Shapes
Students review basic shapes, such as circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles, find objects in those shapes in classroom, watch Clifford's Fun with Shapes video, practice reproducing four shapes, and rotate through four classroom...
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Classmate Grid
Students interview classmates and record their findings on a coordinate grid using Inspiration or Kidspiration and digital cameras. This lesson is technology-based and includes resource links.