Grade 5 Exhibition

ART AND SCIENCE, ART IS SCIENCE: EXPLORATIONS INTO PHOTOGRAPHY, 2014

For 6 weeks, students in the Grade 5 studied photography and how it has changed over the past century and shaped global awareness. Students first learned the inner workings of a camera and how a photo is created using only a small hole, light, and a mirror. First the entire classroom was turned into a giant pinhole camera creating the camera obscure effect. After, students created their own small camera obscure boxes using lens’s to focus and tracing paper to view the image on the back of the box, like a small television.

After this inquiry, the students wanted to create their own large walk in camera’s. Working in teams, the students built two large walk in camera obscure boxes that transposed the outside image on the inside wall. This was not an easy process and we had to figure out the right lens to use for this project. However in the end it was successful.

Lastly, the students were all given film cameras with 24 exposures and were asked to do a homework assignment using these cameras only. This way the students could understand the restrictions and difficulties of using film cameras, in comparison to digital photography. They gained an appreciation for their digital photographs that they did not have prior to this experience. This coincided with a digital homework assignment as well as a quick digital photo manipulation class.

In the end the students had a large exhibition, exhibiting all of their photographs, camera obscure boxes and walk in camera rooms for the school community to observe, use and enjoy.

Construction and Exhibition