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EXPLORING GEOMETRY WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Kimberley Munroe, Curriculum Consultant

Peggy Lawson, Instructional Tech Consultant

PLANNING USING BACKWARD DESIGN

1. Start with the outcomes!

2. How will you assess your students?

3. What activities will you use to help meet the outcomes?

4. Reflection - did your students meet the outcomes?

OUTCOMES & INDICATORS

PRIOR LEARNING

Before the assessment project, what prior teaching will be done? What will students need to know?

PRIOR LEARNING Find out what students know Activity

Provide student groups with a set of manipulatives

Have them sort & group the objectsaccording to theirown criteria

BEFORE – GETTING READY Math Understandings

Prior to the assessment activity, students will have already received instruction on the attributes & characteristics of rectangular & triangular prisms

Review geometrical terminology Base, face, edge, vertex, rectangular face,

opposite face, congruent face

Build nets using net patterns

COMPARE & DESCRIBERectangular Prisms Triangular Prisms

Faces – 6 Edges – 12 Vertices – 8

Faces – 5 Edges – 9 Vertices - 6

BEFORE – GETTING READY Technology Skills

Students may need to be taught . . .

1. How to use a digital camera

2. How to transfer photos to the computer http

://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Pictures-from-Camera-to-Computer-Without-Any-Sofware

3. How to use Photo Story (Google “photo story 3 tutorial”)

http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.pdf http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/

digitalphotography/photostory/tips/firststory.mspx

DURING – CREATE THE DIGITAL STORY Students are to identify and take 4

photos each of rectangular prisms & triangular prisms found in their environment

Using Photo Story 3 or other presentation method

Display the photos, identifying each as rectangular or triangular prism

Identify and name the common attributes for each type of prism

Option - storyboard using PowerPoint & Slideshow notes print out

THE FINISHED PHOTO STORY

PHOTO STORY PRACTICE

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY Step 1 – Import and arrange your

picturesYou can import many pictures at once by

CTRL- or SHIFT-clickingYou can rearrange pictures by dragging or

using the arrow keys If the picture does not

fit the dimensions of thePS window you canremove black borders

Some auto-correctionoptions (red eye removal,rotate) are available

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY Step 2 - Add titles to your pictures

Select each slide in the slide tray for which you want to add a title

You can change font, text colour alignment photo effects

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY Step 3 – Narrate your Pictures and

Customize Motion

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY Step 4 - Add background music

Try the Create Music option! If also using narration, be sure to keep

music volume lowYou may have

different musicfor different slides,or music on onlysome slides

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY Step 5 – Save your story – Save in 2

ways!

Save Project – saves the story so you can edit again later. Saves with a wp3 extension

Save your story for playback on your computer This is the “finished version” format that you

could burn to a CD or use to show others Saves with a wmv extension Make sure you know where

you are saving it to!

STEPS TO MAKING A PHOTO STORY

DURING – CREATE THE DIGITAL STORY

Enrichment Opportunities

Edit photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements Adjust lighting & other photo fixes Cropping photos Making selections

Create a title slide using Photoshop Elements or Macromedia Fireworks

Crop tool

OTHER OPTIONS & RESOURCES Power Point Voice Thread FLIP video camera Digital Storytelling – lots of great

resources @: http://couros.wikispaces.com/Digitalstorytelling

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Questions?