Bring digital storytelling to your language arts class! To begin, learners select their own topic, such as a poem that reflects a life experience they had or a historical figure who interests them. Then they work to create a storyboard...

Third graders practice dictionary skills. They use a digital camera and insert pictures from a floppy disk into a document. They play a game in which they are handed an anonymous definition of each other and must find each other in class.

Students use a digital camera to take pictures of various faces. They then sort pictures according to eye color and create a graph. Students draw pictures of themselves on the screen using specified tools and colors. They choose hair...

Students create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day at school through the eyes of a student. Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events. Students will use multimedia to tell about events.

Eighth graders examine the reproductive organs of plants. In this plant reproduction lesson, 8th graders identify the reproductive organs of different plants using a digital camera. Students create a plant portfolio of images large...

Second graders create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day in school. From their perspective, they take photos of events and activities throughout the school day. Students use their collection for a Powerpoint presentation or...

Fourth graders create a haiku. They use a digial camera and file management techniques to save work. They also use a photo editor to manipulate the pictures. Finally, they create a PowerPoint presentation of their Haiku.

Learners determine how to use a digital camera, edit the photos using PhotoShop Elements, and how to make a PowerPoint presentation. They use the PowerPoint as a digital portfolio which is an archive of their work. Finally, they write a...

Students listen to stories read aloud. They examine a work of art by a known artist. Students take a picture using the digital camera. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." Students compare and contrast the...

Third graders study the history and building of Middleton and Kuna. They create timelines of significant events in the towns' histories. Finally, they create a website dealing with Middleton and Kuna history.

Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

Eighth graders, in a computer lab, transform their images into a full face using the paint & draw tools.

Students create a tri-fold brochure to be used with their local Tourism Bureau that includes information and photos of local streams and lakes and trout fishing areas. Students write a description of the area and include a map of the...

Students create an original lesson about geometry and angles. In small groups they take pictures using a digital camera of obtuse, acute, right, and straight angles that they find at school. Students use the photos in a computer...

Sixth graders construct a collage using found objects over the surface of a shoe creating an object of art. They use a digital camera to document the process of making the shoes. They create images of "art shoes walking" with the...

Students brainstorm to develop resource/reference charts for later use. they are introduced to Microsoft Word and to an internet movie site. They use prepared chart headings, to respond to questions posed on each chart such as: Where do...

Learners tour the school to find out where computers are being used. In groups students use a digital camera to take pictures of people on campus using computers. The learners interview the people they take pictures of and then post the...

Students discover different geometric shapes such as triangle, square, rectangle, and octagon. Students incorporate the use of technology by taking pictures of shapes around their school using a digital camera.

Second graders write books about friends starting with page starters that are provided.

Students locate and label body parts. After having their picture taken with a digital camera, students cut out their body and label body parts.

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