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 Digital Camera's

Digital camera's are great to have in Elementary Schools. They make learning more fun and it can help the students to be creative. From doing some readings I have found that you don't really need expensive camera's. Most camera's are great and will work fine for what you need with young children. This article gives some really good tips on purchasing camera's [|Choosing Camera's].

The Camera that I would most likely get to use in my class would be a Nikon Coolpix. They are great camera's and can take good pictures. They also are not too expensive so they would be good for students to use. If they were to drop them or something were to happen to the Camera then it wouldn't be too expensive to fix. The Coolpix can also take video's so that will be nice for other projects we would do in class.

__10 Ways to Use Camera's in My Elementary School Class __
 * 1) I would take the camera on field trips with us and have the students take a picture of what they liked best about the field trip.
 * 2) Every student would get their picture taken and we would make name tags out of them for when they had substitutes or went to different classrooms.
 * 3) Each student would get to take a camera home with them around their birthday and they would get to take pictures about their life and the things they like to do and then make a collage of those pictures.
 * 4) Take class pictures of what we do throughout the year and then make a year book at the end of the year with all those pictures in them.
 * 5) Let the students take random pictures of activies and different things they like about the class and creat a bulletin board for them to hang the pictures on.
 * 6) Have the students do different kinds of reports and with those take pictures of what they are studying. Then they can create a slide show to present the reports to the class.
 * 7) The student's could also use the camera's to take pictures of different things that matched and make a matching game.
 * 8) I would have the students pick a color and find things around the classroom or school and take pictures of items that were that color and they could make a poster of the pictures they took.
 * 9) Each student could take pictures and make an ISPY game out of the pictures.
 * 10) When the students were all done with their work I would let them take the camera's and just take fun pictures to share with their friends in the class.

These are just a few of the ways I would use camera's in my classroom. Here are a few more [|idea's] of what you could do.