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Words through pictures


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Keywords: Photo software, cameras
Subject(s): English/Language Arts, Special Needs
Grades 1 through 6
School: Fairhill School, Dallas, TX
Planned By: Aixa Martinez-Kydd
Original Author: Aixa Martinez-Kydd, Dallas
1. Students choose three topics from a list: animals, plants, weather, scenery, emotions.

2. Students are assigned a partner. They must photograph things within their category. This can come from outside, magazines, or photos of people.

3. They download these into our computers and retrieve other pictures with the same topic.

4. After they have created a collage, they are to list 10 words that describe their pictures.

5. using a thesaurus, they must find a synonym for each word.


Adv: Write a paragraph using four synonyms that they just learned.
Materials: Point and Shoot, Video Editing, English and Language Arts, xD Memory Cards