Pinterest Lesson Plan

Pinterest is a fabulous, and rather addicting, website that allows you to create boards you can pin ideas that are linked to pictures in an easy to use format.  This website can serve as a great tool for teachers.  We can share tips, tricks and lessons that we've created ourselves or found elsewhere.  This past week, that is exactly what I did. 

As a future Family Consumer Science teacher, I'm looking forward to teaching classes that will be relevant to everyone, no matter their background.  One of these classes is Housing and Interior Design.  I used pinterest to find lesson plans that I could use to compile a project that students could complete to reiterate what was taught in class.

Here is the Assignment Sheet and Rubric.  There are some things within the Assignment that I didn't plan for properly.  I found that out pretty quick when I did the project myself.

First, I cut out all the letters I needed for the title of my project using the die cut machine.

I printed out all of the pictures of the items I wanted in my room.

Pasting the letters onto the board.  Even with the letters as small as they could be, I could tell that they are going to be too large for my board.

I used the straight cutter to make cutting out my pictures a much faster process.

Paperwork attached to the board with brads. (I bent like seven of them in the process of getting them on.)

Made an envelope out of some scrap paper, and put my secondary items that will fill my room in it.

The poster board would have been a whole lot easier to use if I had used a larger one!

This little project taught me a lot about all the resources that are so easily accessed through Pinterest.  After I completed the assignment sheet and rubric, I thought the project would be pretty simple, but it posed more challenges than I would have thought possible.  I wasn't able to fit everything onto the board that I had originally specified on the assignment sheet and the board itself was difficult to work with because of the plastic coating on the face. All the problems I faced while doing the project would be valuable lessons for me as a teacher to learn.  It's important that, before we go assigning projects, teachers do them so that we can properly address and grade with these challenges in mind.

In order to make the assignment sheet, I researched lessons that I found on Pinterest and pinned them to a board that you can find here.