Everyone knows what Pinterest is and what Pinterest does. Just about everyone owns a Pinterest and use it daily to see funny pictures, new recipes, or the latest craft idea. However, most people do not know that Pinterest can be extremely useful for the classroom as well. Pinterest gives teachers new ways of integrating projects in their classrooms. A teacher can look up a specific concept for example the Civil War and numerous pins will pop up just waiting to be clicked on.
Recently, my Educational Technolgy class did a project on Pinterest. We had to use it to look up a PBL project to use in our classrooms. I chose the Civil War. I looked on Pinterest and found multiple fun projects to do. I pulled from multiple pins to create my own project. I decided to do a timeline project using Microsoft Word. It was a really fun project and I really enjoyed doing it.
Here is the link to the project:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8w9Sc4zFgNBTkpTYUNXWWtUU3c/edit
This was the first step in the project. Simply creating the timeline and putting things on the line as they occurred in history. Also this step was about color coding each part of the timeline.
This was the last step in the project. Creating summaries each of the points plotted on the timeline. This also was where the students would need to add how this affected the start of the Civil War.
