As
an education major, I have made a Pinterest account dedicated to teaching
middle school math and science. JL181984 Educational Pinterest Account Pinterest is a bookmarking tool that is used for
sharing products and ideas by “pinning” them onto a virtual pin board. Basically
it is like a kitchen pin board except you do not just pin recipes. You can also
pin photos, products, fashion, décor, do it yourself tutorials, crafting
patterns, and more.
On
my account I have five separate pin boards:
Ed Tech Fall 2013, (Which I will later split into two separate boards, a
math board and a science board) A Teacher’s Closet, Classroom Environment,
Class Library, and Personal Reflection.
On
Ed Tech Fall 2013, I pin lesson plans, activities, labs, and worksheets. A
Teacher’s Closet is a board where I pin wardrobe ideas for the different occasions
a teacher would have to dress for such as business wear, everyday teaching
clothing, accessories, and clothing for going to school games. It would also
include tutorials on hairstyles, makeup, and nails. The board labeled Classroom
Environment would contain pins of educational posters, seating and furniture arrangements,
interactive décor (such as nature stations,) and lighting options. The Class
Library Board will be a list of book I would like in the class library. The last board, Personal Reflection, will be a place to organize ideas to improve myself
as a person and educator. I only have five boards, but an educator could use Pinterest
in hundreds of different ways!
A List of Pinterest Board Ideas for an
Educator:
·
Class
Pet
Use a board to bookmark care instructions of a class pet.
·
Field
Trip Ideas
Organize Ideas, costs, and requirements
for different field trips.
·
Classroom
Art Assignments
Intergrade art into your lesson plans and
pin the instructions and results.
·
Professional
Teacher’s Portfolio
Post your portfolio once a year to watch
how you learn and grow as an educator.
·
My Philosophy
Document your philosophy.
I used Pinterest to turn an old game into a
math lesson about the coordinate plain.My brother and I use to play a modified
version of Battleship on graph paper. Our mother taught us how to play it
during long car rides and it became a quick favorite. Instead of using the classic
“number then a letter” coordinates, we used the coordinates on the coordinate
plain to shoot at. Graphing Battle Ship Lesson Plan
Each
student will have two coordinate planes. One to plot their battle ships and
another to track what coordinates they have already used.
Students
will then insert the coordinate planes into clear sheet protectors in their
three ringed binders and plot these three ships with a white board marker on
their first page. Pick a
partner. Do not let your partner see your plotted ships!
Stand your
binder up so that you can see your coordinate planes, but your partner can not. Begin to play!
