"Old School" Techniques for Slides

Creating/Using Worksheets and Activity Packet Using Google Slides

Creating activities for your classroom is easy when using the editing features on Google Slides. Since it’s often easier to navigate and manipulate text and images using Google Slides than Google Docs, you can create your own worksheets to print out and copy for your class. Or you can take an existing worksheet and make it editable for use on Google Classroom.

Google Slides is also helpful when it comes to making novel studies, literature circles, and cumulative projects. Again, you can create these on your own with the editing tools available in Slides and then print them out in PDF form. There’s even a way to print two (or more) slides to a page to save paper. Or of course, in this digital age, you can create them for the purpose of sharing them electronically for students to work on individually or collaboratively.

Below are some samples.

Question Quest Project

Fiction Project Booklet (6th Grade Standards as of 2018)

Nonfiction Project Booklet (6th Grade Standards as of 2018)

Daily Novel Work - Any Book (Targeted toward 4th Grade)

Collaborative Literature Circle (Targeted toward 4th Grade)

The video below shows some examples of these uses and the beginnings/bare bones of creating each one.

Creating Venn Diagrams, Sorts, and Graphic Organizers Using Google Slides

By combining two tools on the Google Suite, it’s easy to create Venn diagrams, sorts, and graphic organizers for your classroom that are editable, but only in the places you want them to be. These are three tried and true methods that will forever be relevant in education. Making them virtual works for individual assignments and whole group interaction with a main screen.

The video below gives a guide on how to create your own.

Using Google Slides for Interactive Notebooks

The interactive notebook is an age old tool that still holds a lot of value but isn’t always exactly friendly in a time crunch. By converting your old slot notes into Google Slides presentations for each student, they will still fill in blanks as necessary and interact with the content, but now they will do so more quickly and in a way that’s more relevant to their world.

The video below shows an example of a digital interactive notebook the beginnings/bare bones of creating one.

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