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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Digital Pinhole Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
If you sit under a leafy tree on a sunny day, you may notice spots of sunlight on the ground from light passing through spaces between the leaves. Try putting a piece of cardboard on the ground and examining the spots of light on the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Camera Lens Testing

For Students 6th - 8th
This activity helps students learn more about cameras, and how to take better pictures.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Height or Distances With a Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
If you know or calculate the field of view for your camera, you can use it to measure distances and the height of almost anything. It's all a matter of basic trigonometry.
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Other

Digital Imaging in Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Buy a Digital Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
Get some practical advice on selecting the appropriate digital camera for your needs.
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Other

Photonhead: Film and Digital Camera Simulator

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about three major camera characteristics not only by reading about them but practicing using them online.
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Other

Cambridge University: Digital Photography Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
These techniques on digital photography are presented in three primary areas: depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view. A link to digital photography tutorials is also provided.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Camera 'Shakes'

For Students 6th - 8th
You can compare the picture quality for photos taken at different shutter speeds with the camera handheld vs. with the camera on a tripod. (This is best done with a camera that has manual exposure control.)
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Other

Cambridge University: Understanding Digital Camera Sensors

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful tutorial on digital camera sensors is divided into sections including Bayer Demosaicing, Demosaicing Artifacts, and Microlens Arrays.
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Camera

For Students K - 1st
Take a look at the history of cameras from the first pinhole camera in the 11th century to the modern day digital camera.
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Other

Digicam History

For Students 9th - 10th
DigicamHistory.com is an educational site for digital camera enthusiasts interested in the history of the digital camera. Click on different hyperlinked years to explore cameras through the 1800s up to today's digitals.
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NASA

Nasa: Play Pixel This!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides great information on the subject. Learn to see things more clearly by studying about pixels and how they are used in cameras.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Photography: Past to Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In the lesson, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Photography With Near Infrared Illumination

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have an extra sense? What if you could hear above the normal range (ultrasound) like dogs or bats? This project shows you how you can use a camera, tripod and a special filter to take...
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Curated OER

How to Buy a Digital Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
Get some practical advice on selecting the appropriate digital camera for your needs.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: On the Loose With Dr. Seuss

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will survey teachers in order to find out the titles of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of each teacher and his/her favorite book.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
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EL Education

El Education: A Color Expedition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These digital photographs were created by pre-kindergarten students at The College School, located in St. Louis, Missouri. As part of a Learning Expedition on color, students went on class walks to look for specific colors, noticing...
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University of California

Knight Digital Media Center: Video Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning the different types of shots in video is taught in this online tutorial.
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Other

Focus on Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Are You Wearing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.

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