Eye Spy Book

This ICT starter idea written by teachers, for teachers, describes how a class could use a digital camera to make an Eye Spy book.

Curriculum reference

• Visual Language – viewing and presenting
• Written Language – create a piece of rhyming, poetic writing to accompany the image

Prerequisites
Knowledge of how an Eye Spy book works

Resources

• Examples of the text that will be used
• Digital camera
• Word processing and draw software, for example, Microsoft Office or AppleWorks

Possible context
Looking at new genre as part of the language programme

Suggested process

1. Share, read, and discuss Eye Spy books.
2. Brainstorm ideas of where eye spy scenes may take place, for example, inside a desk, a library corner, or a garden.
3. Create the scene and photograph it.
4. Draft text to accompany image.
5. Combine image and text in word processing software.
6. Print, collate, and make into a book.

Other suggestions

• Where's Wally drawings, with a draw program.
• Put together with presentation software rather than as a printed resource.

Authors
Justin Perriam room3@roydvale.school.nz
Claire Riches claire.riches@fendalton.school.nz

October 2000