Digital Camera Ideas

My mind has been open to the amazing resource that a digital camera is! I've started using it to explore with my 1.5 year old. We are loving it! Below are some ideas for how a digital camera can be used in a preschool setting:

RI5 CCR Anchor Standard K–12 5. "With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book." Have children photograph each of these elements and create a powerpoint explaining what each one means.

OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING (OA) Cluster: understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. 3. Explore different ways a set of objects can be decomposed within five. Photograph a number of ways a collection of five and ten objects could be organized. Make a flip book with the pictures.

APPROACHES TO LEARNING AND SCIENCE (AL&S) Standard 1: Students will learn the processes, communication, and nature of Science. 1-2: Displays a sense of curiosity and willingness to try new things. Have the children take pictures of things they find interesting or a curious about. Have them create a poster with their pictures and explain to the class what more they would like to know about the things they have photographed.

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES (SE&SS) Standard 2: The child develops social skills That promote positive interactions with others. As a group, take pictures of scenes the preschoolers act out as they tell a story. Put the pictures together to create a class book.

Other Ideas:

Take pictures of each child’s eyes, nose, feet, or mouth only. Have children try to match each student to his or her body part.

Photograph a day in the life of your classroom for a parent Open House. Create a slide show to run as parents tour your classroom.

Photograph students dressed up as what they want to be when they grow up and use the pictures to illustrate career reports.

Document the growth of classroom plants or animals with daily or weekly photos.

Photographes as part of daily name tags

Have each student choose a letter and find an object that begins with that letter. Take a picture of the child with the object and use the pictures to create a class alphabet chart.

Arrange students into groups and assign each group one of the five senses. Have each group photograph the appropriate sensory organ and then have them take pictures of objects that organ might best perceive.

Photograph parts of the daily routine and using them for sequencing activities.

Photograph objects that are the same color.

Take a picture of the weather each day.

Take pictures of living/non living things

Film the children acting out a story

Film imaginative play and play it back for the children to watch