Drawings

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Grade level Templates and examples

Drawings - Make a copy.webm

Make a Copy of a Drawings Template

Move your cursor over the folders below. Select the box with a diagonal arrow to open the folder.
Open the Drawings. Notice you only have View access.
Go to File -> Make a copy.
- Make sure to move the file to a folder of your choice.
Click Okay.

Video tutorials

Google for Education Drawings Lesson

In this 7 minute lesson, you will learn:

What Google Drawings is
How to access Google Drawings
How to create a Google Drawing
How to add shapes, text, Word art, and images
What types of Google Drawings you can create
How to share and download a Google Drawing

Make A Google Drawing.mp4

Creating a NEW Drawing

WARNING:Google Drawings can ONLY be fully utilized when working on a computer/chromebook. If students are using an iPhone/Ipad or Android device, a Drawing can only be viewed but NOT edited or Added to when using these devices.

Resize Workspace.mp4

Resize Workspace

How do you want to set up your Drawing? Is it for a cover page? Is it for a poster? Is it a canvas for student to write free-hand? Box and Whisker plots? Size it for the space

Buttons on the Ribbon.mp4

Use Icons

The Ribbon has a lot of stuff to use. Mostly, you have to click a shape/object to bring the rest of the Ribbon up. For example, Drawings will give you different options for filling if you select a block versus a line.

Using Google Drawings

Google Drawings How-To Presentation

Step by Step instructions on how to create a Google Drawing. This will show you how to bring the Ribbon up and the rest if you playing with sizing and resizing shapes. Look to the example templates to see how you could use Google Drawings.

What would it look like in a lesson?

Changing Words into math

Teacher View

I would teach on Zoom, sharing my screen how to do the assignment. This is my copy and it is separate from what students get.

Student View (The Task)

Students will have their task assigned as "make a copy for each student" and complete it with you, alone, or in pairs/teams.

Google Drawing makes drag and drop on a large field easy.

Keep in mind

It is absolutely essential that you identify that student work is "make a copy for each student" and if you wish to have video/slideshow instructions for students who need it at a different pace, that your presentation content is "view only". You do not want students to have edit permissions if this is an assignment students do individually or else they could mess up your copy. It would become a "class copy", unless that is what you want students to do!