Award Winning Digital Photography Projects for the Classroom: Teacher's Edition

Step-by-step instructions for doing great things with your pictures.

Here are 64 award winning ideas and projects for using digital photography and digital imaging in the classroom. Some of these are productivity ideas; others are curriculum-based projects. None of the projects described here require expensive camera equipment or difficult techniques. Each project includes a student worksheet written for students to use. There are tips on how to take better pictures in a chapter after the worksheets. The last chapter includes tips on how to import your pictures into the computer and insert them into various programs, such as PowerPoint™, iMovie™, or a Web page.

The step-by-step instructions will work with a variety of software, but we have focused on instructions for using Adobe Photoshop Elements™.

Includes:

• Teacher lesson plans
• Picture making tips
• Working with digital image files
• Camera managment tips
• Classroom and project management tips
• Useful resources and Web links
• Standards addressed by the projects

Projects include:

• The Week That Was
• Which is the Fake
• Music Into Pictures
• Story Starters
• Stop Motion Photography
• Politics and Pictures
• Fractions Photos
• Illustrating Emotions

Author: Arnie Abrams, Ph.D.

Grades 6 & up