Our Family Photo Album

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Our Family Photo Album
Introduction Our Family Photo Album is an
activity that can be used in any cycle at the
elementary level to supplement a thematic unit on
the family. It consists of a PowerPoint
presentation representing pages from a family
photo album. Students use their imagination to
form original family groups that are photographed
and placed in the album. They write creative
descriptions of their family and add voice-over
if time permits. Objective Through the use of
ICTs (digital camera or scanner, word processing,
and Microsoft PowerPoint), students have an
opportunity to reinvest vocabulary learned in the
classroom and to experiment writing descriptive
text.
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Lesson Plan

• Materials 1 or more computers
  
  
  Digital camera or scanner with 35mm camera
  
  Microsoft PowerPoint
  
  Our Family Photo Album
  Tutorial slides 1-6 and
  Our Family Photo Album
  Student Presentation slides 7 and 8 with
  instructions
• Time required This depends on the number of
  families per class.
• Preparation
• Determine how many family members there will be
  per family (groups of 3-5).
• Ask your students to divide themselves into
  families and to consider the following
• 1) What kind of family will their family be?
  (Will it consist of people, animals, a family in
  literature, a famous family, cartoon characters,
  a television family, aliens, etc.?)
• 2) Who will be in their family? (Will there be a
  mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother,
  grandfather, stepmother, stepfather, aunt, uncle,
  cousin, pet, etc.)
• 3) What characteristics will each member have?
  (physical description, personality traits,
  hobbies, likes and dislikes, etc.)
• 4) Are there any funny stories or interesting
  facts about their families? (pastimes, vacation,
  sports, where they live, job, etc.)

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Lesson Plan (contd)

• Organize a photo-shoot day. On this day, all
  students come to class with costumes, wigs,
  props, etc. to be photographed as the family
  member they have created. Take a photo of each
  family and a photo of all the families together
  for the album cover.
• Add sound to your slides by having students read
  the screen text and record it. Follow the
  instructions at the bottom of Slide 8 to record.
• When you have finished your presentation,
  delete the Tutorial, Slides 1 to 6.

• Where to store your family photos and family
  sounds (recordings)
• 1) Create a folder and call it Family Album.
  You can place it on your desktop.
• 2) Create two new folders inside the Family
  Album folder. Name one Family Photos and the
  other Family Sounds. You will save all family
  photos and recordings in these folders and your
  students will go to these folders to retrieve
  them.

• PowerPoint Tips to remember
• Whenever you wish to leave the slide show but
  remain in the PowerPoint, click ESC.
• To create more slides for all the families in
  your class, duplicate Slide 8.
• To delete a slide, click on your slide icon,
  click EDIT, select DELETE SLIDE, or you can BACK
  SPACE.
• To create effects between slides, click SLIDE
  SHOW and select SLIDE TRANSITION.

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Example
Our Family Photo Album
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Example
The Corker Family

This is the Corker family. Old Granny Corker
lives with her grandchildren Sly, who is very
camera shy Slim, who is a personal trainer and
little Baby Boo, who is two and always sucks his
thumb. Granny Corker is 102 years old!!!
She bowls every Tuesday night and really likes
rap music. When Sly isnt on the computer, hes
out skateboarding. Slim has enormous muscles.
She likes to exercise. Boo likes to suck his
thumb andsuck his thumb. They all like to
vacation together at La Ronde where Grannys
favourite ride is The Monster. Boo likes it too.
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The Spike Family
Mr. and Mrs. Spike live in a little village
called Paradise. They have three lovely
children. Chrissy is ten and loves to
celebrate Christmas. She is always dressed in
holiday decorations. Mike has long black hair
and always wears a tuque, even to bed. He acts
tough but is really a nice guy. Nanie is only
three years old but is very big for her age. She
wears her red pyjamas wherever she goes.
Mrs. Spike has long, curly red hair. Mr. Spike
tells her she looks like someone in a Harry
Potter film. Mr. Spike likes to read Sherlock
Holmes stories and the newspaper. Mrs. Spike
thinks he looks like someone too!
Example

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Our Family Photo AlbumFamily Photo Album cover
page.Students begin here.
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Family Slide