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Photo Quilt Square

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Build creative thinking and organization skills with a beautiful quilting project. Young photographers use a digital camera and computer to create photo transfers, which they will use to create a photo quilt square. They sew or embroider...
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Effective Back-to-School Nights

For Teachers K - 6th
Here is an engaging and creative project to do with your ESL learners in preparation for back to school night. A digital camera is used to photograph each pupil, and everyone completes a short writing assignment that goes along with...
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Jones Soda Project - Photography as a Vehicle (For Marketing)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create a marketing campaign using digital photographs. In this digital marketing lesson, students perform online research to determine the attitude that a soda company is attempting to portray with its marketing. They take...
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Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project Based Learning Activity by Mary Gore

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the 5 senses. In this technology skills lesson, students participate in digital storytelling workstations that feature each of the 5 senses. Students create digital cameras and digital voice recorders to explore their...
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Art: Digital Art

For Teachers 5th - 9th
There's no need to filter out the project. Future computer scientists set up a program that acts like a photography filter to complete the sixth of eight parts in the Google CS Art unit. They use the turbo mode in the Scratch coding...
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Me, My Digital Self, and Eye

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners create digital self-portraits for use in a collage.  In this technology lesson, students create an original work of art in which they identify a variety of images that reflect their personality.  Learners complete a...
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Using Repeat Photography to Map Environmental Hazards

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the changes of their environment by experimenting with photography.  In this environmental observation lesson, students compare historic photographs of areas with pictures they have just taken.  Students create a...
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Building Vocabulary With Digital Photos

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Student develop basic Spanish vocabulary using digital photography. In this Spanish vocabulary instructional activity, students use digital photographs to make flash cards and presentations throughout the year as they learn new words....
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Enhancing Friendships Through Photography

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students connect with pen pals through photography. In this digital photography lesson, students create photo booklets to share with pen pals. Students correspond with their pen pals throughout the school year. Students also create...
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Digital Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how to use a digital camera, edit the photos using PhotoShop Elements, and how to make a PowerPoint presentation. They use the PowerPoint as a digital portfolio which is an archive of their work. Finally, they write a...
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Creating a digital Self-Portrait

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use a digital camera and take photographs of each other wearing a "costume" of their choice in front of a blue screen. They work cooperatively to complete the photographs by placing it into a background and setting...
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Getting Down with the Alphabet

For Teachers K - 5th
Students view magazines and discuss photographs that impacted on them. For this digital photography lesson, students use digital pictures to photograph the letters of the alphabet. Students look at lighting, framing and composition and...
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A Day In the Life of a 4th/5th Grader

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars design a photo essay. In this photo essay lesson, students take digital pictures of their daily activities such as their mode of travel to school, the lunchroom, their classroom and classmates. They choose the photos that...
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Life Skill Communication

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students use  digital camera to document the needs for daily living. In this life skills and visual arts lesson, students create class books that include photographs of everyday objects that they use in their home, school and personal...
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Double Self Portrait

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students meet an artist who overcame learning and physical disabilities and became a successful artist. They use a digital camera to imitate the style of one artist; and explore the connection between the use of technology and art.
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T-shirts Build School & Community Pride

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore ways to promote community pride by creating t-shirts.  In this community lesson, students utilize a digital camera to take photographs of their hometown and transfer them to a t-shirt.  Students complete a creative...
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New School Mural

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Young muralists use digital images they take of buildings, locations, landmarks, or places inside the school to create an original work of art. After locating sites of importance and researching to find information, members try to...
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Digital Dynamite

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student develop digital photography skills. In this technology skills lesson, students examine elements and principles of art in photography. Students take digital photographs and select artistic images to print
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Four-part Photography Project

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students develop their digital photography skills. In this visual arts lesson, students consider composition, perspective, and the "rule of thirds" as they snap photographs from the required perspectives.
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Digital Science Experiments

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students listens to an iPod and a voice recorder, in which the teacher provides the experiment instructions. They listen to the directions first, then they observe and record their experiments steps and results using a digital camera and...
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Digital Smiles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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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Telling Your Story

For Teachers K - 4th
Have young writers compose stories that add detail to the moments captured in personal photographs and create an annotated photo album. Rather than sending every member of the class home for the weekend with a digital camera, you might...
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It's All About Me

For Teachers K - 12th
Students become familiar with digital cameras and multimedia tools such as PowerPoint or MediaBlender. They take photographs of themselves and other classmates using a digital camera. Each student creates a slide for a class PowerPoint...
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Asexual-Sexual Reproduction

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the reproductive organs of plants. In this plant reproduction instructional activity, 8th graders identify the reproductive organs of different plants using a digital camera. Students create a plant portfolio of...