Part A: Digital Camera Usage for Teaching and Learning

Interest in digital cameras is increasing in schools. Teachers find having a digital camera in the classroom very useful. Also, a digital cameras can be used in several ways for teaching and learning. A teacher can give students a list of items to look for in the classroom or in the school. The items would consist of science book, skeleton, circulatory system chart, plant, animals, word wall words, digestive system chart, and science fair projects. They must take pictures and compile a slide show presentation of the things they found during their scavenger hunt to prove they found them all. Also, once the pictures have been complied in a Power Point slide show, the teacher can type text onto the slides to correlate with the pictures. The text would be information the students know about the subject and information the teacher believes is pertinent to the subject. Then the teacher can printout the Power Point as a handout for the students to take home to study and show their parents.