http://bit.ly/mims100 Picture It! - Photo Scavenger Hunts in the Classroom Clif Mims Photo scavenger hunts get students moving while engaging them with course content. Well-designed photo scavenger hunts integrate 21st century skills and promote higher-order thinking.

1. Consider asking students to bring digital cameras from home.
2. Perhaps students can use the cameras on their cell phones.
3. This works well as a small group activity making it possible for students to share cameras.
4. Remember that some cameras have special equipment (USB wire, USB drive, card reader, etc.) to move the photos to a computer.

STEP 1: Please work in pairs to complete one of the following activities.

1. MATH: Take photos that demonstrate at least 6 of the following terms from geometry:
• similar, congruent
• point, ray, line
  
• parallel, perpendicular, intersecting
  
• circle
  
• acute angle, right angle, obtuse angle
  
2. LANGUAGE ARTS: Select at least 3 of the following stories/fables/myths. Communicate the moral of each selected story/fable/myth with only 1 photo.
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The Tortoise and the Hare
  
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Stone Soup
• King Midas' Golden Touch
  
3. LANGUAGE ARTS: Select at least 1 of the following stories/movies. Communicate at least 3 themes from the selected story/movie with only 1 photo per theme.
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Gone with the Wind
  

STEP 2: Work with your partner(s) to develop a presentation using your photos from Step 1.
STEP 3: Prepare for the Student Showcase

1. What is your reaction to this activity? Does it have educational value?
   
2. What are some possible ways to assess students’ understanding of the content with this kind of activity?
3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of assessing students’ mastery using this type of technology.

1. Multiple Representations of Mathematic Understanding
2. Multiple Representations of Language Arts Understanding
3. The Great Scavenger Hunt, April 16-17, 2011