Learning Area: Science Room: Preschool Mentor Teacher Signature:

Room
Project Topic: Use iPad to take nature pictures Date and Time: 14/10/2019

Outcomes: Link to EYLF

For Sera, Alfie and Mason become socially responsible and show respect for the environment (EYLF Outcome 2.4).

As well as transfer and adapt what children have learned from one context to another(EYLF Outcome 4.3). Children

express ideas and make meaning using a range of media(EYLF Outcome 5.3).

This experience provides opportunities to children to record the world in their eyes, and learn to respect nature

through what they observed. It also gives children opportunity to get connect with technology.

Content:

This experience is linked with science in KLA. Children explore scientific and technological concepts through use

digital technologies, they develop skills in composition of a picture by mobile phone. Take the pictures of nature

elements is enhance their understanding of the nature as well.

Learning  Children would transfer their ideas about nature into pictures, for example, if a child likes
Intention
dandelion and sky, he could take a photo of dandelion with a blue sky as background.

 Children would develop their understandings of digital technologies – they learn to use

phone camera and find pictures in photo album.

 Children could be more patient when they waiting for their turn – they will take photos one

by one.

Success Criteria  The pictures that children took.

 Observe and document children’s behaviours and conversations during the experience.

Room  This experience will take place in the outdoor area.

organisation
 Children will take photo one by one.

Procedure Engagement/ Introduction:

I will ask child come to outdoor area one by one, therefore, they will have enough time and

concentration on take photo.

 Learning experiences:

Children were excited when they holed my phone, they walked around the outdoor area to

looked for the things they interested in.

Resources

iPad

Differentiation I could ask questions like: why you take this photo? Why your favourite photo is this one?

Children could give me different answers and that would show their different identity, I could

have more understandings about them through this experience.

Reflection Some children took a lot of pictures, they enjoyed photographing rather than choose a place

they interested in, they took pictures everywhere. Some children were more focus on their

interested places such as Alfie took the pictures of ‘Woolworth discovery garden’ because he

said he “look after these plants every day.’ Sera took a picture of ‘Leafy’ which is a little plant

with beautiful green leaves that have been raised by them for a long time. She asked “What’s

going on with Leafy? It’s turning yellow.” “Have you water it?” I asked. “I don’t know, I didn’t

water it, can you water it now?” Sera touched the soil and felt it wet or not. She touched the

leaves gently when I water the plant and promised she will take care of Leafy. And mason took

photos of many different places in the outdoor area, he took photos of play equipment, sky,

scooters and wooden bridge, plants, bugs. Children showed their different interests and how

did they use digital technology. Alfie, Mason and Sera all knew how to use iPad to take photo

and they know the icon of album. Younger children were slide the screen sometime when they

took photo.

Assessment  Observations and document children’s voice.

 Analysing those documentation and discuss with mentor teacher.

 Receiving feedbacks from centre staff and talk to children about their ideas, feelings and

feedback.

Evaluation This experience connects with EYLF outcomes that children strengthen the respect for the

nature and they express their ideas by take photo, they make their pictures meaning.
Some children were distraction by phone, they want to see what APPs do I have, so I told

them respect other people’s private too. I realized that it was a good opportunity to taught

them more things about respect.

For my future plan, I will teach Sera, Alfie, Mason and other children who already know how to

use phone camera about edit photo on iPad, such as adjust picture’s colour and size.

And I will teach children respect private, for example, do not play other people’s phone without

permission.