Digital cameras are a great way to teach students to visually put their knowledge to use, and can be used in all aspects of education, language arts, math, social studies, and science.
In language arts I would have my second grade class take pictures of nouns, verbs and adjectives, and use these pictures to create sentences with. As the student went around and took pictures of people, places and things as well as things that could even describe the word they would be able to place these pictures in order to create a sentence on a poster board displaying their picture sentences. This activity would give the student a chance to see visually the word and hopefully get them to connect to sentence structure.
Math, I would have the student use the camera to take pictures of different types of shapes. As they placed these pictures in a slide show they would be able to describe each shape by it's amount of sides. We could split the shapes into different groups so that we could combine them into a big class slideshow so that the students would be able to see each shape in a real life situation.
Social Studies, I could have the students the students take pictures of their town; government buildings, parks, flags, schools, and important landmarks. Have them make a travel brochure with these pictures and why they should visit this town. Have a list of facts about our town; date it was founded, mayor, size etc.
Science, I would have the student take pictures of different plant life and have them make a power point describing to me what type of leaf, or tree the plant comes from, and how a plant grows. This would give the student a chance to apply their science knowledge in their Earth and plant units. I would also have the student record their voice to create a complete program and have another student take notes on it and test their knowledge from what they've learned from that student's presentation.
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