Summary
Have you ever wanted to be a Professional Pinner? Someone who gets paid to find and pin items to a Pinterest Board for a company or business? Today is your chance!
You are applying for the position of Professional Pinner for Nature.com. Part of your application process is to create a board for them on cells. This board must help people understand how a cell’s organelles help it function. Since this is a Pinterest “board,” you have to select a theme to which all your pinned images will relate.
You will be selecting images that can represent each organelle without actually being that organelle. You have to include the name of the organelle, what it does and how the image represents the organelle.
TIPC Ratings
While the lesson could be modified to include aspects of Research and Information Fluency, this particular lesson did not focus on that category of the Teaching Innovation Progression Chart.
While the lesson could be modified to include aspects of Communication and Collaboration, this particular lesson did not focus on that category of the Teaching Innovation Progression Chart.
Target – Students applied higher order thinking skills to this open-ended task. Students related their own personal interest to the various organelles found in cells. Students had to apply critical and abstract thinking to determine how an aspect related to their theme could represent an organelle in a cell.
Students were required to evaluate their choices and justify how each image related to the organelle it was intended to represent. Students reflected on how they chose the images for their board and on how their understanding of the purpose/role of the cell organelle was improved after completing their board.
Target – Students created science realted Pinterest boards that had personal meaning because of the student’s opportunity to select a topic of interest to them. These boards show originality and thoughtful, meaningful work. Students synthesized thier own knowledge to generate a new way to relate science content to their own interests. Students demonstrated strategic risks in their selection of topic/interest to use as the theme for their board.
Student Artifact
Pinteresting Cells from HCPS Instructional Technology on Vimeo.
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