What Did You See??

Pioneer Museum of Alabama-Field Trip 2011

Today my 4^th grade students took a trip to the Pioneer Museum of Alabama in Troy.  They were very enthusiastic about using digital cameras since we completed our unit on digital cameras.  Our school is fortunate to be able to furnish each fourth grade class with an automatic sub-compact, point and shoot digital camera.   The students were given a photography assignment and instructed to create a digital photo album and present it to the class through a slideshow with music and text. Students will review their pictures and delete unwanted pictures.  Using Adobe Photoshop, my students will be able to download their selected pictures to edit, crop, and modify. Each student must email me a picture slideshow before presenting it to the class.  I found this assignment remarkable because students could take pictures of life before the invention of electricity and use the latest technology to illustrate what they saw on their trip. 

 

Mark, Catherine, Ethan, and Sam taking turns using the digital camera



Reviewing  and deleting photos

Many of my students had never operated a camera or taken pictures with a digital camera.  This field trip allowed them to become more familiar with digital photography and experience a field trip through a lens! Now I feel that my students have the foundation to develop their digital photography skills and share their digital images via print, email, and the Internet including image sharing sites such as Flickr.   To learn more about the Pioneer Museum of Alabama go to their website at http://www.pioneer-museum.org/.