Google+Tools

** ARTICLES **
Using Google Docs With Students This article gives different ideas of how teachers can use Google docs for themselves and other staff members, as well as different ideas of how to use google docs with students. My favorite idea on the list is having students write a collaborative story.

Video on Using Google Drawings This video demonstrates how a teacher can use Google drawings in the classroom. In this particular video the presenter is using Google Drawings to make a Venn diagram, a common tool used to compare and contrast different concepts.


 * Google Docs
 * Google Spreadsheets
 * Google Drawing
 * Google Presentations (we already created one)
 * Google SketchUp -- a tool for geometry and 3-D modeling
 * Google Lit Trips

Silly Sample of Google Sketch Up

This is an example of a google tool called Sketch Up. This was a very fun and interactive tool to use. I discovered this tool and thought it was very hard to work with AT FIRST. But once I got going, it became much easier. This tool could be very useful for an elective class such as architecture. Students could have fun building and designing their own buildings. This tool could also be used for a class such as interior design.


 * Student Activity **

Subject: Language Arts Grade: 5


 * Using Google Drawings, create a drawing that you feel you could create a descriptive story about.
 * When your drawing is done, create your descriptive story using as many adjectives as possible.
 * When your story is done, read your story to your partner and have your partner use Google Drawings to see if they can create the same drawing you have created, based upon what they heard through your descriptive story.


 * Student Sample **

google drawing




 * RUBRIC **





STANDARDS MET DURING THIS ACTIVITY

Common Core Standard
 * English Language Arts Standards, Writing, Grade 5
 * W.5.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

ISTE Standard 1b
 * Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.