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Pinterest for Lesson Plans

For those who know what Pinterest is and how it works, you know that you can find a LOT of cool stuff, from wedding ideas to tattoos. For those of you who do not know what Pinterest is, it is a site that allows others to Pin things from websites. A Pin is a big link to the website and a picture is provided like a cover. This helps you remember what information was found at the website you had visited. 

If you are a teacher or within an educator program, you might be looking for lesson plan ideas. Well good news! Pinterest is home to a ton of lesson plans geared toward whatever subject you may be looking to teach. Pinterest provides a lot of unique ideas to teach basic or advanced information and ranges from Preschool to College. A unique way to use Pinterest within a classroom could be to have students research using Pins or to develop a lesson plan of your own by tweaking one that you have Pinned on your board. 

As you can see, this is a Pin within my Pinterest board, which is a link to my blog page. Pretty cool huh? 

As the final assignment for my Educational Technology, we had to re-pin several links to interesting plans we have found and also provide original links, this Pin will be the twenty first! We also had to create our own lesson plan and complete the projects ourselves. 

My project focused on a younger age group, about second grade. The framework I chose to work with was color theory. I found a Pin on Pinterest that included making a tree with changing leaves by using q-tips and paint, which you can find within this board. I took the plant aspect and incorporated it with the color wheel. The result was a Flower Color Wheel lesson plan, which you can find at this site: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19f00-ldcP-JaTAj9fX_TtNWmPGyOvHetuUtSYUvNfjU/edit?usp=sharing 

The first step in the assignment is to gather supplies, which the teacher would hand out during class or have waiting for the students as they enter. The materials could include markers or colored pencils, a pen or pencil, and an outline of a flower. 

The second step within the assignment is to prepare to color the petals of the flower, this would be when the teacher discusses and explains the color wheel and what primary and secondary are. 

The third step is to allow the students to color the first three petals using the primary colors blue, red, and yellow. 

The fourth step is to ask the students what colors you make when you mix two of the primary colors and explain once again that those are secondary colors.

The Fifth step is for the students to label the flower petals. The label needs to include what color is on the petal and if it is a primary or secondary color. 

This is a rather simple and straightforward concept for a lesson plan. Hopefully the kids will enjoy coloring the flowers and learning about how colors are made! Grading should be over how well students payed attention, understood the assignment, and executed the learned material.