Photography in Education - Ideas For Using Photography to Enhance the Educational Experience

Here are some good tips to improve the class and learning experience with photography.

1. As we grow. Photograph the children of a scale or mark on the wall. Think you shoot them with each other. Take a little early to measure the middle of the year and at the end of the year and show them pictures, and discuss the differences. Talk about things that affect the accuracy of the measurement (shoes, hair, attitude, camera angles, etc.)

2. Nature Walk.Take the class on a nature hike, and try to identify plants, animals and rocks. For those who can not be identified, take the images later and use them to look up the item. Print photos of the products display when it's cold outside, and some of your seasonal bulletin boards save.

3. Photo Gifts. Let each child take a photo of yourself or other object and make a gift to give as a card or other vehicles as a holiday or occasionGift.

4. Local Print Sponsor. Ask a donation to local companies, such as a grocery store or pharmacy, to a certain number of digital photos, or the development of services, so the class can select the best pictures and printed them on nice paper.

5. Photo Club. Create a Photo Club as after-school club or activity period. Look for sponsors to provide funding for disposable cameras and film, or a few good digital cameras. Approach, aPhotographers from the area to a club, teacher, mentor or speaker. In my article on Photo Club activities for more ideas.

6. On "Notice Board". Before the plates themselves and share with your children develop the theme and get some volunteers to take some photos to support the theme.

7. Kid Camera weekend. Assigning a digital camera to a child every weekend to take them home. Ask them to share photos of their experiences - family, pets, activitiesand ask them to also become a creative photo or represents one that will be personality. Then in the next week, they create a slideshow and share with the class. You may need to have to editorial review on some of these photos!

8th Editing Computer Skills. Digital photography is a part of life for every child. Why not offer a simple photo editing as part of computer literacy curriculum? You can also see a little creativity in the game - who can come withthe most interesting editing a standard photograph.

9. Photography as an art. Let students understand some of the artistic elements of photography - composition, lighting, posing, editing and printing, for example. Maybe they are reviewing certain famous works or photographers, and select one study and emulate.

10. Yearbook and newspaper. Classroom snapshots, school life and special events are all great opportunities for children to getinvolved. Also consider an online newsletter or blog will be built and maintained by the students. Enabling students to actively Photo meetings and other special events, the responsibility, creativity and leadership.

11. Prove to School Tour. Preparation of a book or video for the new students a great service that can make your students. You can gain experience in the storyboard, scripting, recording, photographing, editing and producing. A video or slide commentedshow produced by students and approved by the Administration is a great tool and a great testimony to the trust and responsibility that the school gives the children.

12. Time Lapse. Science Instruction, especially biology, are suitable for time-lapse photography. Define the rules (as often as you) who the photos, recorded, and the germination and plant growth or the growth rate of the animals in the classroom. Also a photo outside yourWindow every day will make a really neat weather / climate video at the end of the year. The key is consistency and follow-through to the photos in a movie format down.

13. International Photo Pals. Hooking Consider your children with some other schools across the planet, and trade photos on specific themes a few times a year. For example, you could do a lot about the food, and the children have their lunch experience and photograph some of the foods thatcommon to their school and surrounding area. You could focus on clothing, customs, holidays, sports, local environment and many other topics. The children are thrilled to be sending and receiving these electronic photo packages.

14. Photo Contest. Teach the children about the evaluation of the photos. Develop a score sheet with their input and some general guidelines. Have each child puts a small number of pictures for the blind evaluation. Encouraging each assessor to find positive things in eachPhoto. The top 3-5 from each class to go around a class-level and top-grade level to compete on all school awards. Everyone is here to have fun, editing, evaluting and following the contest. The winner can receive a certificate and maybe even the local paper would print the picture and an article written by some of the students. Or a local photographer may agree to cooperate with the student to take the picture, professionally printed and framed.

15. Look at the numbers.In explaining a large number of children, photographs of the items to be practical. How about 1 million? Think about them from the crowd of 1,000 something like paper clips, then photographed and print 10 copies. This can be 10,000. Then take a picture of the 10 pictures, duplicate it 10 times and you have 100,000. Once more, and you have 1 million, and you can show the groups of 10 pictures side by side on a board to show the scale.

16. See the story.Field trips to local museums or historic areas, good methods of recording up to history. You can collect some of these images and use them as study guides - the children can remember the journey through the images and to enhance their learning. You can also photograph them to make or cause to what is in the oldest in her family and talk about it.

17. See your health. Students can stage and photography activities and healthy lifestyle and can build a book or boxshare with others.

Enjoy integrating these ideas into your classroom experiences. If your school or school does not have a digital camera, ask community foundations to make the retail stores and local photographer to get assistance in obtaining usable digital cameras and software.