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all i need to do is Summarize what you read and explain concepts you learned that will help you incorporate digital photography in your teaching. Include images and links. Describe the perfect camera you would purchase for your classroom, explaining why it is the best choice for you and for your students. The camera that would be best for my classroom would have a 4x to 5x zoom for taking pictures of kids having fun outside on the playground. Sometimes you need to get a picture of the kid at the top of the slide but do not have time to climb up before the child comes down. The camera would need to be able to take movement shots because young children do not hold still very well and action pictures are really fun. Kids just love to wiggle and move they love to see cool things that they have done like their feet not touching the ground because they were jumping when the picture was taken. I feel that the camera for the classroom should be easy to plug in to the computer and pull up pictures. This needs to happen for the teacher and the student can get to work on a presentation or some other photo project. Explain what students are doing with digital cameras. Provide at least 10 ideas you would use in your own curriculum. 1. Young students need to have words to pictures to help them read and be helpful in classroom. I would take pictures of different things that are in the classroom that the students know and will be using and put the objects name with it. 2. Students need to see a visual schedule throughout the first few weeks take pictures of them doing different activities so that they can know what is next and what they have to do before lunch or recess. 3. Working on social science in the first grade part of the core is identifying parts in the community. This means taking different pictures of what makes a school a community like the lunch room and letting the kids take pictures and choose what they need to take a picture of. Then it spreads to the larger community and then taking pictures of the post office, grocery stores, and other things in our community. Also using those pictures to make games the children can play with during free time. 4. Using the camera to take pictures of the activities that we are doing and posting them on the class page so that parents can see what the students are doing and can have a discussion with their child on what is going on in their class. 5. Taking fun class pictures to make a year to remember book or slide show cd for the whole class. 6. Having the children take a picture of a planted seed over several weeks with in the classroom as a heath core and as science core discover how the seed changes and what happened as it grows. The pictures make it possible to go back and remember what it looked like when it was small. 7. Doing an individual picture of each child so that they can see their differences and similarities as they put their pictures next to each other one at a time this is part of the health core. They get to see themselves by looking at a picture and learn that it is wonderful to be different and a one and only person 