Week 5 The Photography Scavenger Hunt

This week we started what is to be our major final project. We want to students to play with size by using close up images on very large canvases. We started off the day with showing a PowerPoint of related art and artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe and macro photography. The students are always very excited about the PowerPoints. They hold the student's interests for long periods of time, and we have discovered that they retain the information we aim to teach them.




Today the students were broken into groups to start the project. We separated all the tables and numbered them. The students immediately recognized the difference in the classroom set-up. Each group was given one camera to go outside and take close up pictures with, and we gave them a scavenger hunt to follow. The students seemed to be intrigued and had a great time outside, although there were many many problems. Problems ranged from technical problems with the cameras to behavioral problems with students running off, not working in their groups, and mainly just not listening. If we were to bring students outside again I would defiantly do it at the end of class, since it seemed like after the scavenger hunt I just couldn't get them to calm down.




At the end of the day, we did get the enough good pictures for them to use as their final projects, and some extras that we can print out to display as well. I believe that if we had access to better cameras (we only had the options of small video cameras that took still frames, when we would have preferred point and shoot digital cameras) it would have made a tremendous difference.