One laptop per child: XO laptop
We just got to play around with a laptop called the XO. This is such a cool technology. There are so many ways a teacher could use this in their early childhood classroom. I would use the write program to have the children do some of their writing assignments such as composing a story. I would use the browse tool to have them look up information on different content areas. I would use the jigsaw puzzles during a content lesson on animals. We did an ant puzzle which was really fun. I would also have the students use the photo and audio tools during a science experiment.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Learning shapes- have them go on a scavenger hunt to find things of each shape
Sequencing- patterns
Learning colors- taking colors of things that are red, blue, etc.
Science- learning about living and non-living things, animals, water, weather
Math- have them find things in pairs, threes, etc
Storytelling- have them take pictures of a story and then put the pictures in the correct sequence
School scavenger hunt- Where are the emergency things, nurses office, principal, bathrooms, etc.
Categorizing
Take pictures of letters or things that start with certain letters
For a lesson using digital cameras a teacher could teach children about rhyming words. This would go along with Kindergarten Language arts standard 3 objective 1B Which is identify and and create a series of rhyming words orally. What we would do is have the students learn a rhyming family such as -at. We would learn about what words rhyme with that ending such as cat, mat, bat, and sat. We would then have them go find pictures of items that rhyme. They could find a mat, have someone sit in a chair, or a cat they see outside.
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