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I think I used Photoshop once before, but it has been years, and I only used it for cropping and resizing photos and it might not have been Photoshop that I used so this was all new for me. One of the third grade standards is to be able to identify animals and the habitats that they come from, so I took pictures of animals and extracted them from their habitats and then put four habitats for the students to match the animals to. When using this image, I would first get students into groups and have them research different habitats and learn about the types of animals that live there. Then I would have students see if they could identify the animals in my habitat on their own and decide which one went with what habitat. I would then probably do some sort of writing activity where I have students write a story about what would happen to one of the animals if it accidentally ended up in the wrong habitat so that I could see what students understood about the relationship of animals to their habitat. I might not normally use Photoshop for this activity, but it did give me good practice and it did have the advantage of having pictures of the animals without the backgrounds.