Lesson+Overview

=Step 1: Students will be placed into groups and each group of four will be given a digital camera. Each group will be told to take several pictures of things in nature. While taking a nature photo walk, students will be told to not only document the walk by taking photos of beautiful things in nature, but to be aware of the smells and sounds of nature as well. Step 2: After photos are taken, students will use the technology lab to load their pictures into picasa 3 for resizing and editing. Step 3: Once pictures are loaded into [|**picasa**], students will be able to do a visual nature walk by looking through all the class photos and choosing the ten that they find most sense appealing. Step 4: They will then be instructed to brainstorm for interesting adjectives and nouns that name and describe the objects. They will brainstorm using inspiration. Above is a screenshot of an inspiration web that I used in a previous lesson. Step 5: Using the following formulas, students will construct three poems to include in their e-scrapbooks: 1. Noun (name of the object); 2. three -ing words 3. a short descriptive statement; Poem 2: Noun (name of the object), 2. three adjectives; Poem 3: Several short statements that encompass all their pictures. Step 6: After brainstorming, students will be asked to type up their thoughts and place them in a word document.= = = =Related Standards:= 3.4.2: Discuss ideas for writing, use diagrams and charts to develop ideas, and make a list of ideas 3.4.4: Use various references materials such as a thesaurus

3.4.5: Use a computer to draft, revise, and publish writing

3.5.4: Use varied word choices to make writing interesting

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