Five Things Friday: Volume 1

Lately, I've been finding lots of ideas that I wishing to weblog almost that aren't worthy of their ain entire post. So, instead of doing anything almost these ideas, they've simply been lurking inwards my weblog drafts folder. The issue of drafts inwards this folder has finally gotten to me, as well as I've decided to create something almost it! Every Friday, for at to the lowest degree the side past times side few weeks, I volition survive sharing a weblog ship service of 5 smaller ideas that I scream back 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 almost me as well as my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year journey. If you're interested inwards learning a fleck to a greater extent than almost me, you lot tin cheque out the article here.

2. I used some pretty record to repair some thermometers.

I works life some thermometers stuffed inwards a random box inwards the scientific discipline lab of our sometime high school. I brought them over to my classroom for my chemical scientific discipline students to use, but I works life that a previous instructor had misplaced the backs to some of the thermometers.

After replacing all of the batteries, I took some decorative record as well as covered the dorsum of the thermometer. Now they're cook 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 gratis resources that Geometiles provides teachers is a printable laid upward of tangram puzzles. I printed off these puzzles as well as laid upward them on a (mostly) unused tabular array inwards my room. I didn't elevate them to my students. Instead, I simply waited to run into what would happen.

It took a few days for students to start noticing them, but when they did they became obsessed! I dearest that these puzzles expect tardily but tin genuinely expire 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 starting fourth dimension twenty-four hr menstruum of having the Brick Logic puzzle out, nosotros had a fiddling mishap. My students informed me that ane of the pieces had been lost. We looked all roughly as well as couldn't observe it. I started to scream back that this was the cease of the puzzle tabular array since ane of my students must bring walked off amongst the slice (either intentionally or unintentionally). I know I shouldn't assume that a pupil would bag something, but it wouldn't bring been the starting fourth dimension time it happened. Sadly, I've had as well as thus many things stolen from my classroom over the course of written report of my didactics 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 you lot create lose a slice to a ThinkFun puzzle, the companionship volition supersede it for gratis if you lot are a teacher! That's some awesome client service!

5. I'm didactics myself physics!

After earning my chemical scientific discipline certification in conclusion year, I'm at in ane trial looking towards earning my physics certification. I don't bring whatever existent wishing (yet) to instruct physics, but I dearest the challenge of learning something new. My physics sense inwards high schoolhouse wasn't the most rigorous, as well as thus I bring Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 LOT to learn. When nosotros were inwards Commonwealth of Australia this summer, I works life my husband's 11th as well as twelfth degree physics textbooks. So I bring adopted them every bit my curriculum.