Are you looking for teaching ideas that include a PowerPoint or want a Word or Excel file?  Before typing in the topic you are searching, type the words-  filetype: and the type of file you want (PowerPoint - ppt, Word - doc, Excel, xls, etc) then type the topic you are looking for in quotation marks.  For example, if you are looking for a PowerPoint over the solar system you would type this into the omnibox (address box):

filetype: ppt "solar system"

The search results will give you Power Points over the solar system and will drastically cut down on how many results are found.  This could save you some time by not having to search through the thousands of sites that appear in the search.  Try it!  

The 3 magical dots up in the right hand corner do so many things. Bookmark is just one.  You can add, delete, or show the bookmarks bar (shortcut - Ctrl/Shift/B to see bookmarks bar)  You can also edit the bookmarks on your bar.  Right click the icon on the bookmarks bar and click on edit.  You can delete the name of the bookmark and just have the icon or you can change to the name to a shorter or different name. DO NOT change the URL because that will change the address to the website. 

Have you ever closed a tab too quickly and want to go back to where you were?  Me, too! Here's a shortcut to get there:

Ctrl/Shift/t 

Hold the control, shift, and t keys for each tab you want to restore.  Presto - here's your tab back!

If you type _popup before the question mark on the web address of any YouTube video, then it will take off all of the ads and any other surrounding videos that the students could possibly click on. 

For example, this video on adding fractions has a YouTube URL of:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQipFjAoT8

If you change it and add the _popup, it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tDQipFjAoT8

Now it opens full screen without any annoying ads.            

This is an old slide show that I made during lockdown.  It has some useful information just in case someone is new to Google Classroom or Chromebooks.  Just click this link to access the slide show.  docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jw6ASAsISGxspy1pGQGUXVhojRj71rRfucKcVtiQuGM/edit?usp=sharing