Five Things Friday: Book 1
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Brick Logic,
Chemistry,
Geometiles,
Logic Puzzles,
Physics,
Puzzle Table,
Tangrams,
Teacher of the Year,
Thermometers,
ThinkFun
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Lately, I've been finding lots of ideas that I wishing to weblog close that aren't worthy of their ain entire post. So, instead of doing anything close these ideas, they've simply been lurking inwards my weblog drafts folder. The issue of drafts inwards this folder has finally gotten to me, together with I've decided to produce something close it! Every Friday, for at to the lowest degree the adjacent few weeks, I volition endure sharing a weblog post service of 5 smaller ideas that I shout out upwards are worth sharing but are non worthy of their ain post. I'm calling this Five Things Friday.
Let's acquire started.
1. I made the news!
My hometown paper latterly published an article close me together with my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year journey. If you're interested inwards learning a chip to a greater extent than close me, yous tin banking concern gibe out the article here.
2. I used some pretty record to repair some thermometers.
I establish some thermometers stuffed inwards a random box inwards the scientific discipline lab of our erstwhile high school. I brought them over to my classroom for my chemical scientific discipline students to use, but I establish that a previous instructor had misplaced the backs to some of the thermometers.
After replacing all of the batteries, I took some decorative record together with covered the dorsum of the thermometer. Now they're gear upwards for my students to use!
3. I challenged my students to solve some tangram puzzles using Geometiles (affiliate link).
It took a few days for students to start noticing them, but when they did they became obsessed! I honey that these puzzles hold back slow but tin genuinely acquire quite tricky. Soon, students were rushing to play amongst the Geometiles whenever they entered the room or finished early.
4. Inspired past times my Geometiles experience, I decided to start a "Puzzle Table" inwards my classroom.
After leaving the here.
On the source solar daytime of having the Brick Logic puzzle out, nosotros had a picayune mishap. My students informed me that 1 of the pieces had been lost. We looked all unopen to together with couldn't notice it. I started to shout out upwards that this was the terminate of the puzzle tabular array since 1 of my students must convey walked off amongst the slice (either intentionally or unintentionally). I know I shouldn't assume that a pupil would pocket something, but it wouldn't convey been the source fourth dimension it happened. Sadly, I've had together with therefore many things stolen from my classroom over the course of educational activity of my teaching career.
Thankfully, it was simply a fake alarm. See that minute slice from the top? It's genuinely 2 pieces stuck together. Mystery solved! This way the puzzle tabular array tin alive on!
Fun Fact: If yous produce lose a slice to a ThinkFun puzzle, the society volition supervene upon it for costless if yous are a teacher! That's some awesome client service!
5. I'm teaching myself physics!
After earning my chemical scientific discipline certification in conclusion year, I'm straight off looking towards earning my physics certification. I don't convey whatever existent wishing (yet) to learn physics, but I honey the challenge of learning something new. My physics sense inwards high schoolhouse wasn't the most rigorous, together with therefore I convey H5N1 LOT to learn. When nosotros were inwards Commonwealth of Australia this summer, I establish my husband's 11th together with twelfth bird physics textbooks. So I convey adopted them every bit my curriculum.
Let's acquire started.
1. I made the news!
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My hometown paper latterly published an article close me together with my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year journey. If you're interested inwards learning a chip to a greater extent than close me, yous tin banking concern gibe out the article here.
2. I used some pretty record to repair some thermometers.
After replacing all of the batteries, I took some decorative record together with covered the dorsum of the thermometer. Now they're gear upwards for my students to use!
3. I challenged my students to solve some tangram puzzles using Geometiles (affiliate link).
Recently, I was contacted past times the form people at here.
One of the awesome costless resources that Geometiles provides teachers is a printable laid of tangram puzzles. I printed off these puzzles together with laid them on a (mostly) unused tabular array inwards my room. I didn't advert them to my students. Instead, I simply waited to run into what would happen.
4. Inspired past times my Geometiles experience, I decided to start a "Puzzle Table" inwards my classroom.
After leaving the here.
On the source solar daytime of having the Brick Logic puzzle out, nosotros had a picayune mishap. My students informed me that 1 of the pieces had been lost. We looked all unopen to together with couldn't notice it. I started to shout out upwards that this was the terminate of the puzzle tabular array since 1 of my students must convey walked off amongst the slice (either intentionally or unintentionally). I know I shouldn't assume that a pupil would pocket something, but it wouldn't convey been the source fourth dimension it happened. Sadly, I've had together with therefore many things stolen from my classroom over the course of educational activity of my teaching career.
Thankfully, it was simply a fake alarm. See that minute slice from the top? It's genuinely 2 pieces stuck together. Mystery solved! This way the puzzle tabular array tin alive on!
Fun Fact: If yous produce lose a slice to a ThinkFun puzzle, the society volition supervene upon it for costless if yous are a teacher! That's some awesome client service!
5. I'm teaching myself physics!
After earning my chemical scientific discipline certification in conclusion year, I'm straight off looking towards earning my physics certification. I don't convey whatever existent wishing (yet) to learn physics, but I honey the challenge of learning something new. My physics sense inwards high schoolhouse wasn't the most rigorous, together with therefore I convey H5N1 LOT to learn. When nosotros were inwards Commonwealth of Australia this summer, I establish my husband's 11th together with twelfth bird physics textbooks. So I convey adopted them every bit my curriculum.
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