My Footprint

My first project was entitled "My Footprint". It is a creative snapshot that can be used to describe yourself to your students using different types of media, including pictures, words, and symbols. This is a great icebreaker activity to give your own class a little insight as to what your interests are and who you are as a person. The more that you can fill up your footprint, the better your students will be able to grasp who you are and better understand what you like to do. It may also even help your students to relate to you if they have similar interests when looking at your own.

There are a few different extension activities that you could do with this. The first would be to have your own students do the same, and create their own "Footprint" expressing their own interests and hobbies. Another idea would be to incorporate this activity into content areas, such as having your students create a "Footprint" based around their favorite school subject. For example, if their favorite subject was math, they could create a math footprint involving different math concepts that they enjoy doing. There are many more activities that you could do with this, but hopefully these few ideas can help to kick start your own classroom and help you to get to know your students a little better.