This document outlines steps for creating a photo story using digital photos to assess students' understanding of geometric shapes. It discusses planning the assessment using backward design, identifying learning outcomes and prior knowledge students need. Steps are provided for taking photos of rectangular and triangular prisms in the environment. The photo story is created in Photo Story 3, labeling each photo with the shape and attributes. Assessment focuses on correctly identifying attributes of each type of prism.

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3. Planning using Backward Design Start with the outcomes! How will you assess your students? What activities will you use to help meet the outcomes? Reflection - did your students meet the outcomes?

4. Outcomes & Indicators

5. Prior Learning Before the assessment project, what prior teaching will be done? What will students need to know?

6. Prior Learning Find out what students know Activity Provide student groups with a set of manipulatives Have them sort & group the objectsaccording to theirown criteria

7. Before – Getting Ready Math Understandings Prior to the assessment activity, students will have already received instruction on the attributes & characteristics of rectangular & triangular prisms Review geometrical terminology Base, face, edge, vertex, rectangular face, opposite face, congruent face Build nets using net patterns

8. Compare & Describe Rectangular Prisms Triangular Prisms Faces – 5 Edges – 9 Vertices - 6 Faces – 6 Edges – 12 Vertices – 8

9. Before – Getting Ready Technology Skills Students may need to be taught . . . How to use a digital camera How to transfer photos to the computer http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Pictures-from-Camera-to-Computer-Without-Any-Sofware How to use Photo Story (Google “photo story 3 tutorial”) http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.pdf http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/tips/firststory.mspx

10. During – Create the Digital Story Students are to identify and take 4 photos each of rectangular prisms & triangular prisms found in their environment Using Photo Story 3 or other presentation method Display the photos, identifying each as rectangular or triangular prism Identify and name the common attributes for each type of prism Option - storyboard using PowerPoint & Slideshow notes print out

11. The Finished Photo Story

12. Photo Story Practice

13. Steps to Making a Photo Story

14. Steps to Making a Photo Story Step 1 – Import and arrange your pictures You can import many pictures at once by CTRL- or SHIFT-clicking You can rearrange pictures by dragging or using the arrow keys If the picture does notfit the dimensions of thePS window you canremove black borders Some auto-correctionoptions (red eye removal,rotate) are available

15. Steps to Making a Photo Story Step 2 - Add titles to your pictures Select each slide in the slide tray for which you want to add a title You can change font, text colour alignment photo effects

16. Steps to Making a Photo Story Step 3 – Narrate your Pictures andCustomize Motion

17. Steps to Making a Photo Story

18. Steps to Making a Photo Story Step 4 - Add background music Try the Create Music option! If also using narration, be sure to keep music volume low You may have different musicfor different slides,or music on onlysome slides

19. Steps to Making a Photo Story Step 5 – Save your story – Save in 2 ways! Save Project – saves the story so you can edit again later. Saves with a wp3 extension Save your story for playback on your computer This is the “finished version” format that you could burn to a CD or use to show others Saves with a wmv extension Make sure you know whereyou are saving it to!

20. Steps to Making a Photo Story

21. During – Create the Digital Story Enrichment Opportunities Edit photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements Adjust lighting & other photo fixes Cropping photos Making selections Create a title slide using Photoshop Elements or Macromedia Fireworks Crop tool

22. Other Options & Resources Power Point Voice Thread FLIP video camera Digital Storytelling – lots of great resources @: http://couros.wikispaces.com/Digitalstorytelling www.cornertsonesd.ca/convention Questions?