As my first field trip came to an end, I looked back at how the students acted and reacted to their surroundings today. I was impressed with their behavior and respect and am thankful for asking them to take small group photos as this will be a memory some of them will have forever. Some of these students had not been on a field trip their entire high school career which makes me realize how important it is to take students out of a traditional classroom setting and allow for them to learn in a new and exciting way!

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This spring, I took 50 students to the Cincinnati Zoo from Digital Photography classes. The students had a afternoon assignment which was a photography scavenger hunt! The students worked in groups to solve nearly 70 riddles, clues and puzzles. Students had 2 hours to solve them and photograph the answers. 

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This spring, I took 50 students to the Cincinnati Zoo from Digital Photography classes. The students had a morning assignment which was used as an alternative form of assessment. The assignment was to take a photograph of the Rules and Guidelines of Photography which were taught at the beginning of the course. Below are examples. When you click on an image, the larger view will appear with the term and definition. 

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For our project we used the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as our theme. We chose this movie because we wanted our theme and display to be as edible as our awesome cupcakes.  The main emphasis of our display is our chocolate waterfall. The waterfall is the part of our display and held the most cupcakes.  We used leading lines, our chocolate river, to help emphasize the waterfall. The chocolate icing in the river also helped to show rhythm and movement. The rhythm and movement shown in the icing is also an example of tactile texture.
Other tactile textures we displayed are in the platforms made of cookies, crumbled cookies at the base of the waterfall, and sand mixed into paint for the structure of the waterfall. Implied texture was in the painting of our tree trunks. We created values for the hills. The tops of the hills have been painted a lighter green than the base of the hills. Value was also used at the base of the waterfall. We made that section a lighter brown to imitate foaming of the river.  
The waterfall shows balance, symmetry, and the use of odd numbers. Each side of the waterfall held the same number of cupcakes with one cupcake at the center. This gave us our balance and symmetry. We used odd numbers by having a total of seven cupcakes on the structure of the waterfall. Odd numbers is also used on the trees because we had three of them. The entire structure of our display and our cupcakes demonstrate variety as we used various designs on the cupcakes themselves and different ways to display the cupcakes.



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Our cupcake stand is about the BP oil spill. This is to represent the earth, and ocean for earth day. We used a black trash bag for the oil, and a coffee can painted black. This represented the oil rig. On the cupcakes we put candy animals, we used Swedish fish and octopus. From the silver cut out of cardboard we hung statistics from it about the oil spill. We wanted to let people know that this is still affecting us today even though it happens a couple years ago. 


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