Through My Eyes
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Providing the students with cameras (or using their own), ask them to take photographs of the people and things they see.  This can be done during a school field trip or on a walk around the neighborhood.  Students should try to avoid copying one another.

Print the photos and have the students share them with the class.  Afterwards, place one image from each student on a display board.  The photographs do not need to be “perfect.”  Use the questions below to help the students expand on the details of their photographs and not the photograph’s quality (blurriness, etc.)

* Young students may need to be shown how to operate the camera.  The cameras can be in standard or digital format.  Students can also share the instant cameras, but not the photographs.

Questions

1.   Why did you take this photograph (what does it depict)?
2.   What does it mean to you?
3.   Do you see beauty, plainness, sadness, or ugliness in the     
      subject?
4a. Is there anything you would change about the subject 
      matter itself? (not photo quality)
4b. Why?
4c. What actions would you take to change it?

*If cameras are unavailable, students can sketch the scenes they find.