Pinterest Weather

Weather types in 1st grade! 

UEN:

Standard 2 Earth and Space Science. Students will gain an understanding of Earth and Space Science through the study of earth materials, celestial movement, and weather.

Objective 3b Compare and contrast seasonal weather changes.

Identify characteristics of weather, e.g., types of precipitation, sunny, windy, foggy, and cloudy.

Education Technology:

Standard 5 Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

ISTE:

Knowledge Constructor Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

The tool that I chose to do was Pinterest, this is an amazing tool that you can use to get any type of information easily and fast. There are so many resources from teacher blogs that make this source great.  I will use this as a future teacher because it’s an amazing resource, it is also a great way to learn from other teachers and to find fun hands-on activities.

The pros of this tool is that it has so many wonderful and fun ideas and activities that you can pin and save for later.  It’s also great because in finding the different types of resources that you can use, you find blogs and websites that have been put together by teachers which is great.  

The cons of this tool is that with it, you can get distracted so easily.  For me, I can spend hours upon hours of time on Pinterest.  Also, on occasion, you can get false pins that don’t actually go to what the picture is telling you that it is.  

I would use this tool to present information to my students in a way that they would be able surf Pinterest and get so many hands on ideas on different topics.  I would allow my students to use this to find different ways that they would like to learn, and what they would like to learn about more in depth on certain projects.  

My students would be able to use this tool to learn more about what I am teaching them and they would also be able to go more in depth on certain topic.  I would make a classroom Pinterest where my students will be able to go to for more information on all different kinds of subjects.