Visual Arts 266: Cell Phone Photography to Identify Nature

Visual Arts 266: Cell Phone Photography to Identify Nature

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Grades: 3 to 12

Grade Levels: 4 and above

Check out this video for a wonderful arts integration and STEAM lesson using a cell phone. By creating the best image on the cell phone with Snapseed app and adding it to the iNaturalist citizen science app, the wonder of nature, art and science is at your fingertips. Use the images to identify what you saw and find out more about it, all from the palm of your hand.

Guest Expert: Sandy Brooks of the St. Louis Arts Chamber and the Academy of Nature and Wildlife Arts

To view the resource slides from the PowerPoint included in this presentation, click here.

Meet Sandy and see examples of her photographic artwork in another Educate.Today video “Inspire Your Heart with Art with Sandy Brooks, Photographic Artist.”

Learn more about the St. Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce at their website.

Learn more about Academy of Nature and Wildlife Arts at their website.

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