Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Beach Balls

1. What do you see?

2. Where do you think this was taken?

3. How did the person take this picture?

4. Why do you think he took this picture?

5. Why is this picture interesting?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Braided

1. What do you think this is? Why?

2. How many do you see?

3. How long do you think these are, measuring from top to bottom?

4. Where do you think you could buy these?

5. What do you think these are made of?

6. What do you think the owner is using them for?

7. If you had these, what would you use them for? Why?

8. If you didn't have these, what would you use instead in their place?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - bouncing balls

1. What do you see?

2. What do you think happened?

3. How many do you see? More than 100 or less than 100? Why do you think that?

4. Are they all the same size, or different sizes? Why do you think that?

5. When do you think they will stop?

6. Could something like this be dangerous? Why or why not?

7. Would you do something like this at home? Why or why not?

8. Name a reason why you could do something like this at home, and it be all right with your parents.

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - dice

1. What do you think these are?

2. How do you know?

3. Why are some of them red, some blue, and some white?

4. Would you like to play board games with these? Why or why not?

5. Why would someone make dice like these?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom

Sometimes I would take a picture I'd found on Tumblr or Pinterest, and flash it up on the screen for the children to see.

We'd discuss what they saw in the picture, with me guiding the questions as far into higher order thinking skills as possible.

(Ex: Why would the woman wear a veil and not a hat?

Why is she using a camel to carry her things and not a car?)

I would then have the children write one or two sentences describing what they see in the picture.

(Photo: Afghan kuchi woman - Pashtun nomads of Afghanistan)

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Unknown Art

1. How many different colors do you see?

2. What do you think this is a picture of?

3. Why do you think you can't see it clearly?

4. How would you fix this picture so you can see what it is?

5. If you could make your own picture like this one, what would you use? How would you do it?

Using Pinterest Pictues in the Classroom - Keys

1. Do you know what these are?

2. How many do you see?

3. How are they all alike?

4. How are they different?

5. Why do they have to be different?

6. What do you think these would help lock and unlock?

7. The long blue key on the right is called a skeleton key. Why do you think it's called that?

8. Why would someone collect these?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Fruit Peelings Rainbow

1. What does this look like to you?

2. What do you think this is made of?

3. Can you name the different fruits making up this rainbow?
(Answer from bottom to top: lime, lemon, orange, pomegranate, grapefruit)

4. Is this rainbow like the rainbows we see after it rains? Why or why not? How is it different?

5. Which colors are the same as a real rainbow? Which ones are missing?

6. How many sections do you see? How many sections are in a real rainbow? Which one has more/less?

7. Why do you think someone made this fruit rainbow?

8. This rainbow is 3 dimensional. What do you think that means?

9. If you could make your own 3D rainbow, what could you use?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Giraffes

1. What is the first thing you notice about this picture?

2. What is the second thing?

3. Name something else about this photo that is different.

4. Would you say this picture is a real photograph of giraffes? Why or why not?

5. Do you think the person who took this picture put the sunglasses on the giraffes?

6. Would real giraffes wear sunglasses? Why or why not?

7. Why would someone want to put sunglasses on a giraffe?

8. What do you think the giraffes are thinking while their picture is being taken?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Rocks

1. What do you think these are? What makes you think that?

2. Use words to tell me what they look like.

3. How do you think they would feel? Why?

4. What would these taste like?

5. How big do you think these are? Why do you think that?

6. Where would you find these?

7. Why do you think a person took this picture?

8. Give me one word to describe these items.

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Balls

1. What do these look like to you?
2. What else could they be?
3. If they were larger than your hand, what could they be?
4. If they were smaller than a penny, what could they be?
5. What do you notice about their shape?
6. How do you think they would feel?
7. What can you tell me about how they are arranged in this picture?
8. Where do you think you would be able to find them?
9. Guess how many are in this picture without actually counting them.

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Squirrel

1. Do you know what this is?

2. What is it doing?

3. What makes you think it's doing that?

4. Why do you think it's doing that?

5. Where do you think this picture was taken? Why there?

6. Pretend this squirrel can talk. What do you think it would say?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Ice Cream Cone

1. What is this?

2. How many dips do you see?

3. Why do you think the photographer put the ice cream dips in this order?

4. What flavors do you think each color represents? What would each color taste like?

5. Would you be able to eat all of this ice cream cone? Why or why not?

6. Why do you think the photographer took this picture?

7.  What if I told you this really wasn't ice cream? What do you think the photographer may have used to take this picture?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Licorice

1. Does anyone want to guess what these are?
2. What do you notice about them? Can you describe them? How big or small do you think they are?
3. What do you think you would do with something that looks like this?
4. Do you notice anything about they way they are laid out?
(A: shades of a rainbow)
5. How do you think these would feel if you touched them?
6. How do you think these are made? What do you think these are made of?
7. Where do you think you could find these?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Sea Urchin Shells

* What do you think they are?
* How many do you see?
* Where do you think they came from?
* What can you tell me about their shape?
* Are they all exactly the same? Why or why not?
* If you were to put them in different categories (or piles), how would you separate them?
* How would you describe what they looked like to someone who hasn't seen this picture?
* Why do you think someone took a picture of them?
* If I were to give you one, what would you do with it?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Ice Cream Nail Polish

* What does this look like?
* What do you think this is?
* Do you think you can eat it? Why or why not?
* Where do you think you would find something like this?
* Why do you think the people who make this chose to make it look like this?
* Would you use it? Why or why not?
* How much do you think it costs?
* If you could change anything about this, what would it be, and why?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Baby Turtles Hatching

What do you see?
What are they doing?
Where are they coming from?
Where are they heading?
Do you think all the turtles will make it out?
What are those white things?
How do you think the eggs got there?
What do you think will happen to the turtles when they reach the water?
What do you think will happen to the eggs that don't hatch?
Where is the mother turtle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy6DVUikTPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ew8sxY-CU

How I'm Planning to Use Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom, Idea 6

 

Subject: Natural Science
Study Unit: Pets

What do you think is on the boy's back?

It's a type of walking stick. It's an insect. Can you see its 6 legs?
The boy doesn't seem afraid. Why do you think he's not afraid?
Do you think this boy keeps this insect as a pet?
Is this the kind of pet a lot of people would own?
Would you like this as a pet? Why or why not?
What would you feed this pet?

How I'm Planning to Use Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom, Idea 5

Idea 5 - Higher Order Thinking

What do you see?
What is it really?
What are the people made of?

Why do you think the little rice people are happy?

Why would a Mom do this with food?

What did the Mom use for bathtubs?

What did the Mom use for water?

What do you see in the soup?
Would you like to eat this? Why or why not?

How I'm Planning to Use Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom, Idea 4

Idea 4 - Math

Graphing
Answer the following using a graphing chart:
How many blueberries have -
*no stem
*stem only
*stem and leaf

Question: How is this picture like a Tic Tac Toe game?
Is there a "winner"? Why or why not?
(Ans: No. There are not 3 in a row that are alike.)
Is there a way to be a winner? How?
(Ans: Yes. Remove stem from blueberry on left, bottom row. Then you have a Tic Tac Toe going down in the first column.)