should first click on the image so that it expands to fill most of the screen.
5. Once students click through to the larger image, they should right-click on and save this high-resolution image. On a tablet, students should hold their finger on the image and save it.
6. To address copyright issues, students should also copy the image’s web address and paste that link into a document for recording project resources.
TECH TIPS
Students can use the following additional search engines.
Following are instructions for saving images on different devices.
Connections
You can apply this lesson to different content areas in the following suggested ways.
• English language arts: Groups of students can create a retelling of a picture book from a different point of view. The students make the ebook with digital images they have found online.
• Mathematics: Groups of students can search for pictures of real-life examples of three-dimensional shapes.
• Social science: Students can search for a primary-source document, saved as an image, and insert this image into a project. These examples can be used in a final project.
• Science: Students can search for images online to illustrate a science topic.
• Art: Students can search for, save, and insert into a presentation different images from one artist.
• Physical education: Students can search for images specific to a sport or activity they do in class. They can play the slideshow of images on a screen outside the school gym so other students in the school can see them.
Learning goal:
I can annotate a photo to enhance the image and demonstrate my learning.
Operational: Annotating Digital Photos
The purpose of this lesson is to have students demonstrate their thinking by annotating an image using a variety of technology tools. Students use higher-level thinking in this type of multimedia creation, or mashing up of media, as they add details and information to an existing image. Students will focus on adding text, labels, or other elements to a base image to show deeper thinking or understanding of the content.
Process: Using Diagramming Software to Annotate a Digital Image
To complete the following six lesson steps, we recommend you use Google Drawings (https://drawings.google.com). If you prefer, you can adapt this process for use with a variety of other options. Options include but are not limited to Microsoft Paint, PicCollage (https://pic-collage.com), and the native photo app on the device.
TEACHING TIPS
1. Have students locate a base image before beginning annotations. For example, in science, students would need to search for an image of a cell as the base image before they can label the parts of the cell.
2. Students should open Google Drawings, found in their Google Drive, and search for a base image to annotate.
3. Have students add text boxes on top of the image to show what they have learned about the topic.
4. As the teacher, you may set how many annotations students need to include based on the content you cover.
5. In addition to text boxes, students can also add other features like lines and shapes.
6. When students finish, they can share their drawing just like any other Google Drive document using the class LMS.
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