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Short Courses: Digital Cameras and Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
This page on shortcourses.com provides links that will answer all of your questions regarding digital cameras and digital photography. Some topics include: using your digital camera, editing digital photos, choosing a digital camera, and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 1: Past/present [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In this first module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about the history of photography, different styles and movements, photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, tools photographers use for expression, and how...
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University of Maryland

Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource provides information about using digital cameras in the classroom.
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4 Teachers: Using Digital Cameras for Classroom Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article from 4Teachers.org details the many benefits of using a digital camera in the classroom, exciting ways to incorporate pictures into student work, and advice on getting started. There is also a handout you can use to...
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Learn My Way

Learn My Way: Using a Digital Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
In this online course, students will learn about digital cameras, how they work, and how to download photos from a digital camera to a computer so that they can be shared with friends and family.
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Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site was created by a technology coordinator to provide some ideas on how to use the digital camera in the classroom. The ideas have been collected from various educators.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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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Photography tips.com: Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PhotographyTips.com offers an excellent and detailed definition of digital photography and many links to more useful information on the topic.
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Photonhead: Film and Digital Camera Simulator

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about three major camera characteristics not only by reading about them but practicing using them online.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Velocity With a Video Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
A video camera records 30 "frames" or distinct images per second. (That's for an NTSC camera in the U.S. PAL cameras in other areas of the world take 25 frames per second.) You can use this fact to time events and measure velocity. One...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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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NASA

Nasa: Play Pixel This!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides great information on the subject. Learn to see things more clearly by studying about pixels and how they are used in cameras.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Digital Pinhole Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
If you sit under a leafy tree on a sunny day, you may notice spots of sunlight on the ground from light passing through spaces between the leaves. Try putting a piece of cardboard on the ground and examining the spots of light on the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Height or Distances With a Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
If you know or calculate the field of view for your camera, you can use it to measure distances and the height of almost anything. It's all a matter of basic trigonometry.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Photography With Near Infrared Illumination

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have an extra sense? What if you could hear above the normal range (ultrasound) like dogs or bats? This project shows you how you can use a camera, tripod and a special filter to take...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For 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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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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Alabama Learning Exchange

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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leaders of Our School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
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El Education: A Color Expedition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These digital photographs were created by pre-kindergarten students at The College School, located in St. Louis, Missouri. As part of a Learning Expedition on color, students went on class walks to look for specific colors, noticing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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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National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

Ingenious: Image Manipulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience an interesting interpretation for the manipulation of photographic images. Manipulation is used widely in advertising, politics, and in exploiting ones personal character.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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.