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100 WAYS TO USE DIGITAL CAMERAS
Take photos or videos of field trips.
Take photos or videos illustrating vocabulary words.
Take photos or videos of plant growth
Take photos or videos of community
Use photos for seating charts.
Take photos to illustrate stories or poems
Take photos or videos for illustrating emotions
Take photos or videos of classroom pet
Take photos to prompt creative writing
Take photos of learning centers for a choice chart.
Take photos or videos of bulletin boards or classroom.
Tape a student's photo on their desk name tag so that other
students and substitutes learn names.
Use photos for attendance chart
Use photos for graphing
Use photos for story about the child
Use photos of family to create a family book
Use photos or videos for step by step directions.
Use photos for sequencing.
Use photos or videos for an ABC book.
Use photos to create a book about the school and workers.
Create a staff directory.
Use photos or videos for a school or classroom handbook.
Use photos for passports during a travel unit.
Take photos or videos in Physical Education to record
progress.
Take photos or videos for assessment.
Take photos for a book about colors.
Take photos for a book or chart about numbers.
Take photos for a book about shapes.
Take photos or videos of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
Take photos for a rhyming book.
Use photos in thank you cards or invitations.
Take photos of events and make a calendar of memories.
Using photos create a body part book.
Use photos to create a community workers or school workers
book.
Use photos or videos for concept illustration for curriculum
areas.
Display student work on your website by taking a digital
photo.
Send a camera home with a student to take photos of family
traditions or scan photos for a Traditions Book.
Use photos or videos to create an Open House slide show
display.
Use photos in letters to e-Pals.
Create a digital yearbook or memory book.
Use photos or videos as a reminder to a teacher or substitute
of how to plug in cables to the TV, VCR or computer.
Take photos or videos to explain a hobby or collection
Use photos as graphics in student work
Take photos or videos of art concepts: line, shape, texture,
and color.
Take a photos or videos of something in the classroom that is a
problem area and have the students brainstorm how to change the
area.
Take photos or videos of the weather and seasons.
Use photos for the classroom helper chart.
Laminate photos of students for voting, selecting partners,
choosing centers, graphing.
Take photos of classroom events for student journaling. Write
about the photo of costume day, hat day, book character day,
etc.
Create a photo Birthday Book.
Take a photos of students to create classroom awards; Act of
Kindness, Caught being good, Great reader.
Send an email with a photo of the student caught being good.
Use photos to create postcards
Use photos to create faces for puppets.
Scan photos that students bring of their pets for creating a
book about caring for pets.
Take photos or videos for a classroom inventory.
Document events with photos or videos.
Email classroom events to the local newspaper or school
board.
Use classroom photos as computer screensavers.
Create a Welcome to Our Classroom book
Take photos of school lunches for "What's for Lunch?" chart.
Scan photos students bring of extended family members to
create a family tree.
Take photos or videos for animal reports
Take photos or videos of parts of a plant
Take photos or videos of types of clouds
Make a Five Senses book with students photos illustrating each
sense.
Take photos of environmental print for an emergent readers'
book - stop sign, Target sign, exit sign.
Take photos of objects zoomed in and have students guess what
it is.
Take photos or videos of assignments and post them to your
website for parent communication.
Create photo vocabulary cards for ESL students.
Photograph books that you read to add to a list or chart.
Photograph class schedule for special needs students or
substitute.
Photograph or videotape procedures for parent volunteer
training.
Print two copies of photos to make a matching or concentration
game.
Show safety rules through photos or videos.
Create photograph bookmarks.
Create "It's My Turn" name cards with student pictures for
choosing who gets the next turn.
Post the Character Education Word of the Week with photos of
students who fit that description. For example: Punctual,
Responsible, etc.
Create videos of students acting our Character Education
concepts.
Create a video of directions for a project
Create brochures using photos
Use photos or videos to "argue a point"
Video a student as an assessment tool
Take photos of rhyming words
Create a chart of words that begin with the same sound using
photos
Create videos of poetry, tongue twisters or other phonemic
awareness activities to send home with children for extra
practice.
Create a video book report complete with costumes and action
Use video to record student's demonstrations for assessment
Create video thank you messages
Capture interviews with video
Have students record their "sales pitch" for advertising on
video
Photograph unit resources and place in thematic unit folder.
Create a game for matching student photos and student names.
Photograph samples for graduation standards.
Create a photo memory book for a student who is moving away.
Use photographs or video for conflict resolution role playing.
Create a postcard with the teacher's picture to send to
students in the summer.
Use photographs for a visual schedule.
Use digital photographs for a student teacher bulletin board.