Digital Camera and Scanner within Science Curriculum:
Chemical Reactions*
Description | Recording Experiments
Course Description
Learn how to use a digital
camera and scanner to record your students' 3-dimensional models and their
experiments. Use the scanner to create digital files of students' hand-drawn
models and other science materials. Personalize your presentations, activity
sheets, web pages, and classroom displays with pictures from digital cameras and
scanners. This course is a great next step for those who have taken a web page
course or created web pages.
Testing Fluorescence | Carbon Dioxide Reaction
| Density Chemistry | Batteries | Picture Formats and Usability | Convert a File
Create a Slide Show | Scanner Tip | Scanner Tip Website | Digital Camera Tip |
Scanning with All-in-One 2000
Scanning with Canon N676U | Crop Pictures |
Convert Picture File Formats | Inserting Pictures into Word | Powerpoint
I.
Testing
Fluorescence and the Digital Camera’s ability to take pictures in the dark:
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Reaction
to fluorescent light |
Chemistry,
Earth Science |
1.
Scan rocks.
2.
Take pictures of the rocks and fluorescent light and positioning of all
materials.
3.
Perform experiment, recording with and without flash on camera.
4.
Combine pictures on one page.
5.
Write report.
6.
Create template worksheet for students.
7. Extension/Reinvention: What other experiments will you perform with your students in which you could reproduce this process? Create a lesson plan, time permitting.
II.
Illustrate
the Production of Carbon Dioxide in a Chemical Reaction using Baking Soda and
Vinegar
|
Baking soda and vinegar in bottle with balloon top
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Chemistry, States
of Matter |
1. Take
picture of materials: balloon, vinegar, bottle, baking soda
2.
Record experiment, taking pictures using multiple cameras in order
to capture the progression of the size increase of balloon. Extension:
use QuickCam to record changes to balloon.
3.
Insert pictures into lab report and label.
4.
Write
about process and hypothesize and/or discuss chemical and physical changes.
5.
Create template worksheet for students.
6.
Extension/Reinvention: What
other experiments will you perform with your students in which you could
reproduce this process? Create a lesson plan, time permitting.
III. Oil seems thicker than water, but is it heavier? Density Chemistry (reinforcing training done on the ocean and how salt content affects density)
|
Oil, Food Coloring, and Water |
Chemistry,
Density |
1.
Take picture of materials: Oil, food coloring, and water, wide neck
bottle
2.
Record experiment using Digital Camera, taking pictures using
multiple cameras in order to capture the movement. Use QuickCam if available.
3.
Insert pictures into lab report and label.
4.
Write about process and hypothesize and/or discuss chemical and
physical changes
5.
Create template worksheet for students.
6.
Extension/Reinvention: What
other experiments will you perform with your students in which you could
reproduce this process? Create a lesson plan, time permitting.
IV. Batteries
|
Battery types |
Rechargeable? |
Comments |
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Alkaline |
Yes |
Cheapest |
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Nickel Metal Hydride |
Yes |
More expensive |
|
Camera batteries that come with camera |
Yes |
Convenient |
|
High energy Lithium |
No |
Expensive, but last longer |
V. Picture File Formats and Their Usability
Qualities
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GIFGraphics Interchange Format |
JPEGJoint Photo- graphic Expertise Group |
PICTPicture |
TIFFTagged
Image
File
Format |
BMPBitmap |
|
Internet
format? |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
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Compressed? |
|
Y |
|
|
|
|
Largest
file format |
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|
|
|
þ |
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JPEG
View |
Only available for Macs |
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VI.
Ways to convert a file: (Choose File
Menu, Save as)
1. JPEG view
2. Scanner
3. Copy and Paste into Paint (PC)
4. Copy and Paste into SimpleText (Mac)
5. Photo Editing Software, such as Adobe PhotoShop or Microsoft Photo Editor
VII. Create a slide show with JPEGView (Mac only)
1. Move all pictures to a folder you create on the desktop called Pictures for Slide Show
2. If
you want the pictures to display in a particular order, rename them with
numbers.
3. From the Macintosh hard drive, open JPEGView.
4. Choose File / Begin Slide Show
5. Choose File / Begin Slide Show
Edit your slide show:
6. Choose File / Slide Show Options.
7. Experiment with automatic or user-control
8. Experiment with Preferences (Under the Edit menu)
VIII. Scanner Tip: Increase Windows Display Colors
If your scans look blotchy when you view them, it could be because the Windows color depth isn't high enough.
1. Right-click on your Desktop.
2. Select Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Click the Settings tab.
4. Under Colors, make sure that at least High Color (16-bit) is selected.
IX. Great scanner tips website:
http://www.help.com/cat/1/614/38/ht/?tag=dd.hp.scanners-text-2417.txt.htm
X. Digital Camera Tips: Choose the Right File Format
Choose TIFF instead of JPEG as a file format for storing your images. While JPEG can give you enormous savings in file size, it does this using a lousy compression algorithm. This means that some quality is lost by saving it as a JPEG and it can never be recovered. Worse still, every time you save an image as a JPEG, you lose additional quality, making this a poor choice for images that you're working on in your image editing program. TIFF is a better choice. It's almost universally accepted by computer applications, (but not on the Internet, which uses JPEG and GIF) it's Mac and PC compatible, and, while it offers less compression than is possible with the JPEG format, it offers reasonable savings in file size without a sacrifice in quality.
XI. Scanning with HP All-in-One Scanning
1. Lay picture or item on glass as straight as possible
2. Click
New Scan button
3. Choose Photo Only
4. Click Start Scan button
5. Click and drag the handles to select the desired scanned area.
6. Click Crop button
7. Choose File Save As
8. Name the file
9. Choose the type
10. Choose the location in which you want to save
11.
Click Save
button.
XII. Scanning with Canon N676U
1. Lay picture or item on glass as straight as possible
2. Select Start, Programs, ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000, and PhotoStudio 2000
3. Click the File menu and select
4. Click Start Scan button
1. Move the handles to surround the part of the image you want.
2. Click the Crop button
3. Save your image: File/ Save - save to your desktop folder or floppy disk
NOTE:
You have the option to save your pictures in other picture file formats:
-TIFF
-GIF
-JPEG
-Windows BMP
XIV. Converting Picture File Formats
1. Open Microsoft Photo Editor
2. Chose File/ Open
3. Find file
4. Choose File/ Save As
5. In Save as Type, click down pointing triangle
6. Chose the file type you want
7. In Save in line choose Pics folder (or your preferred destination)
XV. Inserting Pictures into Microsoft Word
1. Choose Insert Picture From File
2. Find your picture
3. Click on the picture
4.
Click
on Text wrap button on the Picture Toolbar 
5. Choose Tight
Label your pictures with a text box and group the text box with the picture:
6. Click on the text box button on the drawing toolbar
^ draw ^ text box
7. Click and drag to draw a text box under your picture
8. Enter your text
9. Resize your text box
10. Click on your text box
11. Hold down shift and click on your picture
12. Click on Draw on the drawing toolbar
13. Choose Group
1. Click on the Start button (bottom left)/ Programs
2. Click on Microsoft Office and/or Microsoft PowerPoint
3. Make sure Template is chosen and click OK
4. Choose a template of Presentation Design and click OK
5. Click on Title slide (Slide 1)
6. Click on OK
7. Click in top text frame
8. Type in some text
9. Click on bottom text frame
10. Type in some text
11. Choose Insert, New Slide (or use New Slide button on the Standard Toolbar)
12. Choose Insert Picture From File