Photography: Summer Camp 2013

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Week 3 Lesson Plan

This week continues the investigation of photography by learning how cameras work and what things can be done with a image in a photo lab.

Maryland State Curriculum-

Ink Printer ink at Dodge Chrome
taken by a Team 3 member

Week 3

Word Wall

This week we focused on learning about how a camera works, some of the settings or "modes" and composition. As a result our Photography Word Wall has grown immensely! Our word wall is positioned on the main bulletin board situated right in the front of the class. Children are responsible for writing each word that is posted.as they learn them.

Parent Involvement

One of our Dad's, Mr. Chris, who is an amateur photographer, Dad teaching came in to teach the children about cameras using his DSLR and a point and shoot camera as a examples. He explained about the three main parts of a camera, body, lens and sensor or film. He also showed how light is an important part of taking a picture and that the shutter opens to let the sensors capture the image. The children learned that the lens is made in a convex shape to allow for more of the surroundings to be included in the photograph. Mr. Chris also expressed how important photography is by showing some examples.

 

Field Trip to a Photo Lab

Dodge-Chrome

The class took a trip to a local photo lab in Silver Spring called Dodge-Chrome. The tour showed the children many possibilities for printing photographs. They were shown different papers and surfaces with fantastic photography printed on them. Previous to the tour the children chose a photograph they had taken to be printed so that they were able to see the entire printing process from start to finish watching their own photograph. The photographs rolled out on a big machine all together and then were cut and packaged individual as a souvenir of the trip. In the end, the class was also given a beautiful forest photograph that they had watched being printed on a piece of aluminum and images printed on sticker material that they had observed too. Other highlights of the tour were seeing a dark room, examining and photographing the amazing galleries of images throughout the building, and looking at the frame shop with it's ability to cut intricate designs. Many thanks to Todd Harris and Ms. Ann Dominiski for an incredible tour.

Green Committee Notes

While they were playing outside a couple of kids were fiddling with the video mode on their cameras. One got an idea to make a video based around being "green". They worked on a few clips with another child helping them act out situations like recycling and using the rain barrel. During the committee meeting they pitched their idea as a project to work on for the Eco-School award and it was unanimously accepted. The checklists completed the previous week were also reviewed.