This is a great project for someone that is interested in both stargazing and photography. Bright city lights and even the light of the full moon obscure the dimmest stars, which can make identifying constellations more difficult. This...

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.

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...

This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)

This resource provides information about using digital cameras in the classroom.

In the lesson, young scholars 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.

Students who are mathematically inclined can use the student version of a program like MatLab or Mathematica to convert a digital image into numbers, then perform operations such as sharpening or special effects. This is a great way to...

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...

This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.

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...

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.

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.

The students will use critical thinking skills and artistic abilities to "transform" an image into something completely different. The original images can be taken with a digital camera and printed out or cut from old magazines.

A strobe light can illuminate an entire room in just tens of microseconds. Inexpensive strobe lights can flash up to 10 or 20 times per second. This project shows you how to use stroboscopic photography to analyze motion.

This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time...

This is both a hands-on and technology based instructional activity where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for...

Here's an interesting flash photography project. With an inexpensive Fresnel lens, you can concentrate the light from your flash. You'll be able to shoot with a smaller aperture and a shorter flash duration. This will give you a greater...

The purpose of this lesson is to identify some of the skills and attitudes that are essential for solving problems effectively. This lesson will be implemented as part of a character education unit on integrity. The meaning of integrity...

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...

Lesson begins with a class discussion of respect and the Golden Rule. As groups, students discuss Golden Rules from around the world and take digital pictures of their peers. Students then create their own golden ruler using the computer.

An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.