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DA#13 – Photo-Safari with Flowers

Is there a change of perspective to the world when you look at nature through a camera?

Taking photos with the tablet is very easy and children can use the device independently after a quick tutorial with the teacher. But children should not just snap pictures on a photo safari. They learn to take and select photos consciously. They can review photos, reflect on the content, and learn that beauty is seen subjectively. 

Young children who cannot read are able to distinguish different plants through photos and can use an app for plant identification together with adults. This way teachers, parents and children can spend time together in nature and learn about flora and fauna.

Nature has always been a great inspiration for artists. Through the close observation of flowers and plants, creativity is stimulated, and feelings can be expressed. To explore and learn more about famous paintings, children accompanied by adults can use children’s search engines on the Internet and have their first experience of safe image search.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik

tested with Integrationskindergarten Westendstrasse, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

4-6 years

Objective

  1. Learn to use photography as a design, expression, communication, and presentation medium.
  2. Express own perspectives on the world and certain topics using photography.
  3. Explore and express feelings. Be inspired by artists and create artwork yourself.
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#nature #photography #images #environment #colours #art

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DA#12 – Nature through Seasons

How does nature change through the seasons?

YES!

In this atelier, children discover the differences between the four seasons. They walk outside and seek for clues to find out what season it is.

Creating digital images is an important skill for the new generation. Using a simple app, they will learn to remove a background from a photograph: a technique used in the media industry. This atelier will raise awareness towards media and how advertisements are created.

Watch the video trailer here: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/iCc2fwZc4onPrWTdm8AG8j

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France, Tested with: Ecole Maternelle Pommier, Marseilles, France

Time

5 activities (around 20 minutes each)

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Discovering photo editing apps.
  2. Walk outside, exercise.
  3. Create your first digital art.
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#nature #portrait #advertising #photography #mediaeducation

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DA#11 – Nature in the City

How to convey a sound and visual environment?

YES!

During this workshop, pupils explore the themes of sound and image. They are encouraged to observe their immediate environment: their school or home neighbourhood. Is this environment rather urban or natural? What elements are associated with the city? And with nature? What do they see? What do they hear? What does a sound say? How can sound and images complete one another? Walking through different places together, the children capture these environments in sounds and images using a camera and a Dictaphone. 

At the end of the workshop, the children make a “sound bingo” to be played with the family and other classes.

An idea from

Christine Gerards, Roton nursery school, Charleroi – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

Around 4 hours, 4 activities in school and 3 activities at home.

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Observe one’s environment, recognise sounds and sound effects and associate them with a photo/a corresponding image.
  2. Take, sort and choose photos for a specific goal.
  3. Identify sounds and record them.
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#nature #photography #sound #environment #mediaeducation

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DA#9 – Gentle Pebbles

How can we make small children experience, in a direct and fun way, the impact of messages shared online?

While exploring the topic of minerals and their possible transformations, children reflect on how the messages we share online, both positive and negative, spread and have an impact on others. Children, educators and parents go on a pebble hunt, exploring natural environments such as rivers and small streams but also mountain paths, city parks, etc. The collected pebbles will be ‘transformed’ by the children’s creativity into tools for spreading positive messages in public spaces.

An idea from

Cabiria Manca, ECEC educator at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia Bosco Incantato”, Bellaria-Igea-Marina – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (30-40 min each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Reflect on the dissemination and impact of the messages we share online and offline.
  2. Fostering a sense of belonging to a wider community.
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#emotions #nature #art #mediaeducation

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DA#4 – Faces & Places

Can a face become a landscape?

Yes!
With a tablet, a transparent sheet, a marker and a lot of creativity! At home with their parents and at school with their educators, children observe and photograph their territory, the surrounding nature and the faces of their grandparents. The photos taken become the starting point for the creation of two worlds that intersect and exchange: grandparents’ facial lines are transformed into landscapes that in the end are combined to create a large wall piece.

An idea from

Romina Copetti – Sillitto Maria Teresa – Veljacà Sara – Paolini Cristiana, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Non ti scordar di me-Grisulute-Avasinis”, Alesso di Trasaghis – Italy. 

In co-design with Elena Iodice and Zaffiria

Time

5 activities (1 hour each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Recognising and reproducing facial expressions.
  2. Exploring social and natural environment.
  3. Interpreting and reworking images and photographs.
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#nature #emotions #movement #art #mediaeducation