Digital Camera

 The digital camera is very easy to use and can produce results immediately. Digital photographs can be used across the curriculum and for very different purposes - from self-resourcing to stimulating writing, to recording an end product.  

Self-Resourcing

 ©  Make a model from lego and take a photograph of it. Put this photograph onto the lego box and put the same photograph onto the shelf where the box goes. The children can then match the pictures from the box to the shelf when it is time to tidy up and put the equipment away in the correct place.

 ©  Put a photograph of the child (child’s face) by its coat peg, so the child knows where to hang his/her coat

 Children’s Photographs

 Children’s photographs can be used in many ways

 Foundation Stage:­

Stage 1 :-    The children have their photograph taken with the digital camera and see it printed off on the computer

Stage 2:-  In the mornings the children come into the classroom and find their photograph and put it on the whiteboard

Stage 3:-  The next stage the children put their photograph by the initial letter of their name

Stage 4:-  The children match their photograph to their name

Stage 5:-  The children just put their name on the whiteboard by their initial letter

Stage 6:-  The children write their name on the whiteboard

 Phonics

Use the children’s photographs when making a list of initial sounds

 eg:­sun

Sameena

snake

snowman

Saima

 RoIePlay

Use photographs of children’s faces for bus passes or passports

 Stories

 Use the children’s photographs and include them in part of a story

Eg Instead of the Kings soldiers put a child’s photograph helping Humpty Dumpty

Eg Instead of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff put a child’s photograph on the bridge

Eg Use the children’s photographs to chase the gingerbread man

 Pictograms

 Children use their photographs to vote for a particular thing

Eg What fruit they liked best in the fruit salad

Eg What their favourite weather is

Make into a pictogram using the children’s photographs

 Preposition Cards  

Use the digital camera to take positional photographs:­

Eg Humpty under the chair

Humpty on the chair

Humpty behind the bin

 ©  Show a positional card of Humpty to the children and ask the children where Humpty (or another object) is  

©  Can they put Humpty in the same place eg Humpty under the chair

 ©  Can they find the word under to go with the positional card  

Trails  

The digital camera can be used to create an instant photographic trail  

©  Start by giving the children the 1St photograph

 ©  This photograph leads to another and then another until they reach the conclusion of the trail where they find their reward

 Trips  

The digital camera can be used on school trips. These photographs can then be incorporated into the follow up work  

©  Aston Hall — children take specific photographs of the building eg windows, brick work, door  

©  The follow up work is to look at the different materials used by the builders at Aston Hall and compare it with our school  

©  Shape of the windows, bricks, wood, cornerstones — used these photographs to produce collage work  

©  Make a graph of all the different shapes / materials  

Classroom Activities

Cooking:

­© Take photographs of the children cooking and make into a recipe book or part of

a display (eg children making a fruit salad)

©  This can then lead to writing eg I like apples or a recipe card / book

 ©  Painting a fruit bowl on the computer                     

© Make a graph of their favourite fruit in the fruit salad

Stimulus

Taking photographs can be a stimulus for work within the classroom

 Eg Weather photographs

 © Write the weather forecast eg On Monday it will be rainy

 © Paint weather pictures on the computer

 © Make a graph of their favourite weather

 DT

 Take photographs of the different processes of a DT activity. This can then be displayed alongside the plans and finished model

 Cards  

Use the digital camera to produce an inside for a card

eg Christmas card — Happy  Christmas with a class or child’s photograph  

Ofsted, Threshold, Performance Management

 The above activities are just a tiny snapshot of what can be done with a digital camera. There are many, many more ideas and purposes for the digital camera

 Keeping digital photographic evidence of activities (that you do) within the school, such as writing, pictograms, school visits, role play, DT, parent workshops are ideal for Ofsted, Threshold and Performance Management evidence.