Building a pin-hole camera to experiment with the behavior of light and the use of light in a chemical change. Laser Light Relays - investigating how light travels. These activities will help students to build their research skills on the internet. They should also foster independence on the student s part. The class demonstrations will strengthen knowledge about the behavior of light.
Student s building of their cameras allows for creativity and cooperative learning.
A scanner will also be used. Cathie Patton s students at Pierre Indian Learning Center will take digital pictures of the insects collected in their environment. They will compose a class Email and attach the digital pictures to Debi Minkel s kindergarten classes at Meadowbrook Elementary School in Rapid City. The Email will have a request for the kindergarten students to sort the insect pictures by color and send the results to Barb Oates first grade class in Piedmont, South Dakota. Barb s students will take the pictures and information submitted by Debi Minkel s students and write a fairy tale.