Blog Post 18

I would like to use Google Photos in class for writing. I think that the fourth grader can use Google Photos to create stories through photos and write an accompanying story for the pictures. I would like to even add random pictures to an album and have the students choose a couple of the provided pictures. The students will use the pictures they chose to create an imaginative narrative or expository. This will allow the students to use their imagination because they will not be given a topic to write about they will decide what to write on their own. The students can also find pictures for stories that we read in class. Many of the stories that we read in fourth or fifth grade do not have pictures therefore I would like to assign the students a story in which they can search for photos and upload them to Google Photos. The students must make sure they they arrange the photos in sequence and they follow the order of the story.

I also thought that Google Photos was very easy to upload and most importantly arrange the photos. I would like to give the students in fifth grade a science topic such as weathering or erosion and have them find picture examples for the given topic. I would have the students research different topics related to science and find examples to show the class. I think this would be great in fifth grade because often in science we read about a topic and certain students still struggle to understand the concept therefore finding appropriate pictures for the topic would be great because it provides the student with a visual. 

 

In fourth grade social studies we talk about different concepts that without pictures students might have a hard time understanding what is meant because we are discussing things that happened hundreds of years ago. Google Photos can be used to show the students how certain artifacts looked and what they were used for. Social studies lessons would benefits from Google Photos because we can save them and they will be available on any computer as long as there is an internet connection. Throughout the year I would like to create albums for different events in history. At the end of the year or whenever we need to review we can access these photo again and create a timeline of the different events using the photos.