Google Activities
Google Activities for the Classroom
Poster in Google Slides - The poster must illustrate a concept that you teach and contain a collage of images and text. You can expand this by linking text and images to other sites in order to make this interactive for students. Resize Google Slide to poster size by choosing custom size.
Graphics in Google Drawing - Create manipulatives, graphics and posters in Google Drawing for instruction
Interactive/Instructional Presentation in Google Slides - Create instructional presentations in Google Slides. Presentations can be created for centers and homework in Google Classroom.
Virtual Manipulatives in Google - Use Google Drawing or Google Slides to create virtual manipulatives.
Google Templates - Use templates to create a digital replica of magazines of social media for instruction. Click here for templates.
Time Magazine
National Geographic
Instagram
Fakebook
Twitter
Comic Books
Control Alt Achieve Template Resources - Check out resources for virtual manipulatives and content creation. Ex: interactive clock for centers
Digital Manipluatives Using Google Slides or Google Drawing
Comics in Google - Create a comic using a Google template or Google Drawing that explains a concept.
Graphic Organizers - Students use Google Slides to create graphic organizers to demonstrate knowledge of a topic or understanding of vocabulary concepts.
Google Templates - Students utilize Google Templates (Click here) to create original work to demonstrate understanding of a concept. Templates include comics, magazines, social media templates and newsletters.
Stop Motion - Students utilize Google Slides to create stop motion videos.
Google Drawing - Students create digital posters in Google Drawing or original graphics to demonstrate understanding.
Google Slides - Students create original presentations that include graphics, video and transitions to demonstrate learning.
Google Activities Resources
How Google Apps for Education Can be Used in Your Classroom - Check it out here.
16 Ideas for Student Projects using Google Docs, Slides and Forms - Check it out here.
12 Resources for Google Slides - Take a minute and discover the true power of Google Slides. I learned things that I didn’t know Google Slides could do. AMAZING!!
Google Activities Classroom Integration Ideas:
Selfie Writing - Have students use technology to respond to short daily or weekly prompts.
Google Slide Brochure - Create a brochure in Google Slides to support research.
Surveying with Google Forms & Graphing with Slides - Taste Test Survey, Graph Responses, Graph Halloween Candy (Enter data from Google Form)
Color Words in Google Slides - Students insert a picture for each color word. Great for centers.
Templates for Primary Students - Activities from Christine Pinto are perfect for center rotations or whole group.
Magazine, Social Media & Comic Templates: Click here
Resources from Ctrl+Alt+Achieve & Eric Curts: Click here
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin - Create a pumpkin in Google Drawing and describe the life cycle using Vocaroo for an app smashing project.
Graphing - Graphing using table tools in Google Slides