101 Ways to Use a Digital Camera in Your Classroom
	Take photos or videos of field trips. Take photos or videos illustrating vocabulary words. Take photos or videos of plant growth Take photos or videos of community Use photos for seating charts. Take photos to illustrate stories or poems Take photos or videos for illustrating emotions Take photos or videos of classroom pet Take photos to prompt creative writing Take photos of learning centers for a choice chart Take photos or videos of bulletin boards or classroom ideas from other teachers Tape a student's photo on their desk nametag so that other students and substitutes learn names. Use photos for attendance chart Use photos for graphing Use photos for story about the child Use photos of family to create a family book Use photos or videos for step by step directions. Use photos for sequencing Use photos or videos for an ABC book Use photos to create a book about the school and workers Create a staff directory Use photos or videos for a school or classroom handbook Use photos for passports during a travel unit Take photos or videos in Physical Education to record events and skills Take photos or videos for assessment Take photos for a book about colors Take photos for a book or chart about numbers Take photos for a book about shapes Take photos or videos of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs Take photos for a rhyming book Use photos in thank you cards or invitations Take photos of events and make a calendar of memories Using photos create a body part book Use photos to create a community workers or school workers book Use photos or videos for concept illustration for curriculum areas Display student work on your website by taking a digital photo of it Send a camera home with a student to take photos of family traditions or scan photos that students bring for a Traditions Book Use photos or videos to create an Open House slide show or display. Use photos in letters to e-Pals Create a digital yearbook or memory book Use photos or videos as a reminder to a teacher or substitute of how to plug in cables to the TV, VCR or computer. Take photos or videos to explain a hobby or collection Use photos as graphics in student work Take photos or videos of art concepts - line, shape, texture, form and color Take a photos or videos of something in the classroom that is a problem area. Have the students brainstorm how to change the area. Take photos or videos of the weather and seasons Use photos for the classroom helper chart Laminate photos of students for voting, selecting partners, choosing centers, graphing Take photos of classroom events for student journaling. Write about the photo of costume day, hat day, book character day, etc. Create a Birthday Book. Add a photo to a page that the child has written about birthday plans. Print one for the book and one to send home. Take a photos or videos of the students on their birthday Use photos to create classroom awards. Act of Kindness, Caught being good, Great reader Send an email with a photo attachment of the student caught being good Use photos to create postcards Use photos to create faces for puppets Scan photos that students bring of their pets for creating a book aboutcaring for pets Take photos or videos for a classroom inventory Document vandalism with photos or videos Email classroom events to the local newspaper or school board Use classroom photos as computer screensavers Create a Welcome to Our Classroom book Take photos of the various school lunches for a "What's for Lunch?" chart Scan photos students bring of extended family members to create a family tree. Take photos or videos for animal reports Take photos or videos of parts of a plant Take photos or videos of types of clouds Make a Five Senses book. Students take photos illustrating each sense Take photos of environmental print for an emergent readers' book - stop sign, Target sign, exit sign Take a photo of an object zoomed in. Have students guess what it is. Take photos or videos of assignments and post them to your website for parent communication Create photo vocabulary cards for ESL students Photograph books that you read to add to a list or chart Photograph class schedule for special needs students or substitute Photograph or videotape procedures for parent volunteer training Print two copies of photos to make a matching or concentration game. Show safety rules through photos or videos Create photograph bookmarks Create"It's My Turn" name cards with student pictures for choosing who gets the next turn. Post the Character Education Word of the Week with photos of students who fit that description. For example: Punctual, Responsible, etc. Create videos of students acting our Character Education concepts. Create a video of directions for a project Create brochures using photos Use photos or videos to "argue a point" Video a student as an assessment tool Take photos of rhyming words Create a chart of words that begin with the same sound using photos Create videos of poetry, tongue twisters or other phonemic awareness activities to send home with children for extra practice. Create a video book report complete with costumes and action Use video to record student's demonstrations for assessment Create video thank you messages Capture interviews with video Have students record their "sales pitch" for advertising on video Photograph unit resources and place in thematic unit folder Create a game for matching student photos and student names Photograph samples for graduation standards. What is a "4"? What is a "3"? Create a photo memory book for a student who is moving away. Use photographs or video for conflict resolution role playing. Create a postcard with the teacher's picture to send to students in the summer. Use photographs for a visual schedule. Use digital photographs for a student teacher bulletin board. Have students do Digital Storytelling.