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Project: Camera

 

Starting point: Children have a natural interest in what happens in everyday life. At home, in kindergarten and in their environment, they are interested in photographs. They enjoy looking at and finding themselves in pictures, looking for and discovering well-known persons and "things and / or objects" in the pictures. In this context children frequently develop the desire to be allowed to make photos on their own. They are also interested in how a camera works and they want to know, how the "images" develop.

 

The project’s starting point is the children’s inquisitive attitude and their urge to examine and discover. The project’s emphasis is on the understanding of the scientific-technical basis of a camera. The units and/or activities make an wholistic approach to the topic possible for the children.

They become acquainted with different cameras, examine them, and learn to take individual cameras apart. Moreover, they can build a simple camera in order to experience and understand how a camera functions. Excursions make it possible for them to interview "experts" and to visit a photo laboratory.

The project closes with a presentation of the results for parents and children.

 

 

Overview of the sequence of activities:

1. Discussion circle and paintings about the topic "camera" (What do the children know about the medium?)

2. Taking apart and and examining a reflex camera and a one-way camera, taking photos with the one-way camera.

3. Getting to know and a trying out a Polaroid camera.

4. Furnishing a "researcher’s chamber".

5. Cutting out pictures of cameras from brochures and putting together a collage.

6. Getting to know, examining and experimenting with different models of cameras without film (one-way camera, pocket camera, Polaroid camera, cameras).

7.  Inserting films into different cameras and experimenting with photography.

8.  Making cameras.

9.  Visiting different photo shops: Experts answer the childrens’ questions, renting of old cameras.

10. Examination of the old cameras, comparison with the new models.

11. Exhibition of different cameras in kindergarten.

12. Experiment: How does a picture get into the camera?

13. Experiment: In the human eye pictures appear in the same way as in a camera.

14. Experiment: Exposing photo paper.

15. Visiting a private photo laboratory.

16. Slide-show for children.

17. Project presentation for children and parents.

 

The activities printed in bold letters exist as planned activities.

 

(conceived and tested by AWO-Kindertagesstaette, Duelmen)

 

Download (german and english): Projektfoto.zip

 

Contact:

Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Berufskolleg, Lüdinghausen/Germany

Rvw-bk-lh@kreis-coesfeld.de