Photo Phun

While attending the Minnesota State School Forest Conference we tapped into a resource which would lend us cameras.  We unpacked and charged up 24 Nikons.  After a brief tutorial, the kids were shutterbug-happy.  Our mission was to snap photos of "faces" we see around the building and in the school forest.  It was a perfect outing with temperatures cool enough to keep the mud solid and yet warm enough to have mittens off.   

When reflecting on the effectiveness of the lesson, we learned to use technology (understand the basic functions of the camera, take photos with a purpose, upload the photos, and share them with others); to look for the unexpected; to try something new; and to express ourselves in creative ways.  Hmmmm.....how would that be measured on a standardized test?