Curriculum
Curriculum Resources: Online Resources

Uses of Digital Cameras

• allows creativity
• fosters inquiry-based learning
• promotes higher-order thinking
• gives a sense of ownership to student by putting camera into their hands
• develops going from abstract to concrete
• encourages use of technology for future jobs

Integration Possibilities

• Students email pictures of events in school to local newspaper
• Students take pictures while on field trips.  Import into newsletters to parents, students' reports of what they learned on trip, save/print for scrapbook or send to newspaper.
• Student of the week - take pictures of student each week.  Print out and include in poster about that person
• Scrapbook.  Ask PTO to purchase photo paper for printer. 
• Scavenger Hunt.  Send small groups on hunt for specific things around school.  Instead of bringing back objects, students take pictures.  Download into PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• "Welcome to Class" book
• "Student Showcase" web page.  Students do a report via PowerPoint and teacher videotapes. 
• Calendar - students take camera home after parents sign agreement that they're responsible for it from time student leaves school until he arrives in classroom next day.  Put all students' pictures onto calendar pages with spiral binders.
• http://emints.more.net/info/bootheel/ and www.sikeston.k12.mo.us/mgilmer
• www.sikeston.k12.mo.us/mgilmer/digcam

Social Studies

• Make pictures of city landmarks into a presentation about your town.  Use publishing software to make a brochure.  Start a discussion of the history of our town with pictures.
• Take a picture of local government buildings and make a presentation brochure or reference booklet.
• Take a picture of local government officials and print them out to make a poster of branches of government, job description, and elected and appointed officials.
• Interview someone with a career you'd like to have and take his picture.  Include it in a report via a multimedia presentation using PowerPoint and a presentation projector.
• When discussing emotions, have students make faces or actions to demonstrate. Use these pictures to generate creative writing.

Science

• Use pictures for horticulture guides.
• Illustrate the first signs of spring and winter.
• Zoo field trips or animal reports
• Stages of development - life cycles of tadpoles, mealworms, butterflies.
• Simple machines - Have a digital camera scavenger hunt to find objects in school or home that are made of compound or simple machines
• Find pictures illustrating which of the five senses are being used
• Take pictures of stages of the moon and location in the sky to illustrate the movement of moon.

Math

• Find shapes in school; each student takes 1 picture of examples of 2D and 3D shapes
• colors
• patterns
• counting numbers (preschool or Kg) - pictures of students learning to count
• multiple arrays
• Take pictures of various times and make flashcards

Language Arts

• Autobiographical. PowerPoint and take picture of each student
• Take pictures of positional words e.g. ball under table, on, etc.
• To illustrate opposites
• Take project pictures to use as a backdrop for play
• Sequencing
• Take pictures of things in the students' environment such as McDonald's sign, print them and make a book of what they can read.
• In phonics, students can see things depicting certain sounds.
• Compare/contrast - door and chair, two people, etc.
• When studying adjectives, take pictures of objects that students must then describe.  Digital pictures can be inserted into the story.

Movies

• Capture parts of a class play, awards ceremony, or other event.  Then post movie to web page.
• Record students acting in script without sounds.  Play the movie and have the class write dialogue, action sequence, character analysis
• Daily assignments -students record another student reading assignments for the day