Keystone Elementary School
Knox, PA  16232

Resources for Using Paint and other Graphics in Your Lessons

Digital Pictures
Using Pictures in Lessons
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/camp/lessons.htm

Digital Scavenger Hunt
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/03-1/lesson034.shtml
Armed with digital cameras, student teams take photos of scavenger hunt items and use the photos to create a slideshow.

Paint Lessons
B
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http://www.amphi.com/~technology/standards/lessons/edtech/gutierrez5.html

This lesson is designed for kindergarten students to create a story about an insect using Microsoft Paint, after two weeks of a four week insect unit.

Learning With Come Along Daisy on the River
http://www.valdosta.edu/~lnbrowni/paintlesson.html
The "Learning With Come Along Daisy on the River" lesson could be used with children in Pre-K through third grades.  This lesson is designed for pre-kindergarten level students.  The students will begin with a hands-on technology activity of a Paint picture with a summary of the literature story.  The students will have the opportunity to explore the Microsoft Paint Program.  This is a cross-curricular lesson integrating technology, art, and language arts skills.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake, What Happens?
http://www.valdosta.edu/~slphagan/paintlesson.html
If You Give a Pig a Pancake lesson could be used with children in Pre-K through second grades.  This lesson is designed for kindergarten level students.  The students will begin with a hands-on technology activity of a Paint picture with a summary of the literature story.  The students will have the opportunity to explore the Microsoft Paint Program.  This is a cross-curricular lesson integrating technology, art, and language arts skills.

Painting the Alphabet
http://www.learnnc.org/learnnc/lessonp.nsf/0/E1F40DA5E95965A285256B5B0053F1D0?OpenDocument
After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.

No Flakes Like Snowflakes!
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=flake
Few things are as awe-inspiring as snowflakes, those miniature masterpieces of symmetry. This activity invites students to explore snowflakes from the inside by making their own. (For older children)


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