The applicability of social networks

Today I would like to deal with an interesting topic in the present, which is the usefulness of the social networks for sharing ideas; showing some Instagram profiles that can be reliable for us.

It is fact that nowadays we live connected to each other’s, we have just to tick and see what is going on or what is someone doing.  Taking this into account, why we don´t project onto education? Why we don´t use these as ways of enriching our lessons?

Teachers are the foundation of everything, in this way we need to be prepare for any possible changes that may occur. The solution for facing this is to be on continuous formation. Hence, we can use social networks such Instagram for this purpose.

I have been looking for some profiles, and the ones I like the most are the following ones:

- @diari_duna_mestra (Here)

This teacher deals with different subjects, but the posts that are the most interesting are related to math. 

Here her pupils have created handmade polygons. It is another way for learning the differences between each shape.

- @profesorademates (Here)

Another example, but in this occasion it is only focused on math. In addition, she has different spaces for each parts that can be found inside maths. 

In this post, she explains who we can facing symmetry in the classroom, which is using Tagram. Within kids can explore easily the different shapes, also we are fomenting their creativity.

For me the both mentioned are the most interesting, but there are other profiles have such interesting posts too: @lanubedeprimaria (Here), @ennuetraclasedeprimaria (Here), among others. 

They vital thing here is the feasibility that we have with internet, and there are teachers that reject the idea of bringing it into their lessons; or even taking ideas from here. 

I hope you have enjoy this post! 

The advantages of hand-made tools

Today I would like to deal with hand-made tools and theirs advantages. It is known that kids learn better when they do things by themselves, so why we don´t give them a try in making measurement objects by themselves?

It can be an interdisciplinary task for the reason that it is concerns with science and even arts. In addition, they will be more interested in the final task, which is measure itself! Here the main idea is to make students the protagonist of their learning.

We can create different tools, but I have found just one good video where it is explained how it can be done. It is supposed to create a situation (problem) that kids have to come up with a solution. I hope you enjoy it!

Here you have another video related to create a rain meter. It could be beneficial to do it in the school and the kids take it at home. In this way we will relate what is teaching with what is learned; they can measure the water themselves. 

Don´t forget pupils learn by doing!

Early Levels

Hi everyone!

Today I would like to start talking about how it can be introducing the concept of measuring in early levels; but without teaching/using any standard units of measurement.

Well, many authors said that  young learners have to face and learn too many concepts, as well as understand their applicability to the reality. So it could be beneficial and more suitable to introduce a kind of measurement sense through comparisons, where they have just to say if one object is bigger than the other. Hence, it would be a brilliant idea to use games where they have to explore and learn by themselves. For instance, I have found a really interesting post, (https://www.icanteachmychild.com/measuring-with-dinosaur-feet/) where it is suggested to do it but creating a context. In this way students would be more motivated in order to take part in the activity development.

It is supposed that kids have to compare a dinosaur track to his/her foot, without any standard units of measure. We have to ask them about the size of both; which is bigger, … In addition, they will have to measure it using their foot.

Once they have an understanding of the basic concept of measurement, then we can introduce them to standard units of measure.

Another way to introduce it is regarded in this video; here you can see how the teacher introduces through comparaisons the concept.

To sum up, it is necessary to give a significant introduction of these new concepts to learners, in this way we can avoid future problems or misunderstandings about them.