Cindy ZielenskiWilbraham Middle School 7th Grade Science Digital Imaging in the Classroom

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Cindy Zielenski-Wilbraham Middle School7th Grade
ScienceDigital Imaging in the Classroom
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Prior Experience
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• Created student slideshows to music using digital
  images
• documenting projects
• geology field trip pictures incorporated into
  classroom discussions
• Personal use

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Objectives
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• To incorporate real life examples of monocots and
  dicots into the classroom
• To appeal to different learning styles
• Students will be able to identify and take
  digital photos of each
• Students will be able to write a compare/contrast
  essay (Type III-John Collins) upon completion of
  this slide show

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The World of Monocots and Dicots
Virtual Field Trip
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Monocots
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• Embryo with single cotyledon (seed cannot be
  split in two)
• Flower parts in multiples of three
• Major leaf veins parallel
• Stem vascular bundles scattered

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Monocot
Multiples of 3?
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Techniques Used
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• Copying layers
• Creating bold type with the correct opacity and
  text tools in Photoshop Elements 3.0
• Saving as Photoshop AND JPEG files

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Monocot
Veination parallel?
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Techniques Used
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• Aforementioned
• Image resizing and resolution
• Enhancing and adjusting color
• Adjusting hue/saturation
• Eraser, opacity and size brush

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Monocot or Dicot?
Monocot
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Parallel veination?
Monocot
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Dicots
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• Embryo with two cotyledons (seed can easily be
  split in two)
• Flower parts in multiples of four or five
• Major leaf veins netted
• Stem vascular bundles in a ring

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Multiples of 3,4 or 5?
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Dicot
Monocot or Dicot?
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Techniques Used
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• Enhancing flower edges to make them really pop
• Filter sharpen
• Unsharp mask
• Adjust amount and radius

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Netted
Parallel or netted veination?
DICOT
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Monocot or Dicot?
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Multiples of 3, 4 or 5?
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Techniques Used
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• Enhance brightness to make digital photos of
  presentation quality

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Netted or parallel veination?
Monocot
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Outcomes of developing this Digital Imaging
Project
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• I learned to take better digital photos and pay
  closer attention to camera settings
• There wasnt a picture that I couldnt fix with
  Photoshop Elements 3.0
• Excellent tech support allowed me to navigate the
  program with ease and frustration free! (Thanks
  Goose!)
• The program is user friendly and I didnt realize
  how many tools I used until I analyzed the
  presentation.

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Other subject ideas
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• Digital images can be taken of students and then
  enhanced to teach foreign language vocabulary
• Language Arts teachers can use it in creating
  poems and literary pieces (story boards and
  books)
• Math teachers can use it in finding Around the
  town geometry
• Students can be put in groups and then asked to
  take pictures of specimens in Science for
  classification units or examples of geographic
  features for topographic map making in Social
  Studies