Winter Image Competition on Geography Champions

Thanks to Paula Owens for adding details of a new photography competition on the Geography Champions Ning.
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As you get ready to undertake the last term this year why not think about some simple outdoor work you could do with your class?
There is a photo competition running until the end of November and the winning photos will be featured as the Ning background during December and into the New Year.
We’re looking for iconic and or personally memorable outdoor images of winter that make us think ‘December’. See the Forum on the Ning for more details.
Why not take your class outside with digital cameras, even if it’s just in the school grounds. For example, pupils might choose a special place, a landscape view, a close up shot of flora or fauna, an urban sky-line - anything out of doors goes as long as it conveys a ‘December’ feel. Here are a few quick ideas to get you started:
Pupils work in groups of four or five and take an image each on a shared camera. Having uploaded the images back in class they then discuss with their group why their image is special to then and why they have chosen it. Each group then chooses one image and prepares a short persuasive presentation as to why it should be chosen to represent their class.
You could also upload all the images your class take to a plan map of the school grounds using a photo sharing site such as Flickr with Google Maps or a similar programme to help locate where the image was taken.
I have identified some curricular opportunities in Geography, Literacy, ICT and Art on the Forum – why not have a look and see how you might develop this? I do hope that you will have a go and look forward to sharing some of the outcomes.

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