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The Picturing Science project combines photography,
science, writing, and art to create a Web-based showcase of student work.
The goals of the project are for students to look at their environment
through new perspectives and engage creatively with those elements that
they study in science classes.
Science
Teachers start with a science unit, often emphasizing issues of local
environment and culture. Focusing on a central theme, teachers develop
science concepts and words. |
Photography
Students work in groups to determine pictures they will take to illustrate
their theme. They can use still, digital, or disposable cameras to
take these pictures in their environment.
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Writing
Students are guided through how to develop concepts and words about
their images and how to write creatively about photographs they have
taken. There are several ways to develop student writing, including
brainstorming descriptive words, phrases, and analogies and then writing
about each picture. The final result is a showcase of student images
and words that ties into the science units studied in the classroom. |
Click on the links below to see the work of students
and participants in Picturing Science workshops.
Picturing Hanauma Bay, June 2007
Maui Arts Center - Teachers Workshop K-12 2004
American Samoa August
2003 local environmental issues
Education
Laboratory School 9th grade marine biology class, Hawaii
American Samoa PEC pre-conference
Guam workshops
South Pacific Academy 6th grade art cass, American
Samoa
Education Laboratory School 6th grade science
class, Hawaii
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