Google Activities for the Classroom

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

Comic Strip Template

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

K-2 Resources

Your Day in the Classroom with Google

Your Day with Google

How to Create Center Rotation Slides

CreatingCenterRotationSlides.mp4

Creating Slides to Share With Your Students

CreatingSlidestoShareWithStudents.mp4

Creating Manipulatives in Google

Creating Manipulatives in Google Slides-Ten Frames.mp4

Google Activities for Primary Learners

Learning with Google: Primarily Google

Chrome Extensions & Web Apps for All Students

Chrome Extensions

Ideas for Google Activities in Your 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.