Google Keep

Math

• Equation Visualization: Students can create notes with drawings to showcase how equations work with visuals (this may be especially helpful with geometry!).

• Top Tutorials: Students can find a tutorial on a website like Khan Academy that helps them understand a mathematical concept or process and save it to the Google Keep using the Google Keep Chrome Extension. Students can even go a step further and take notes summarizing the parts of the tutorial that assisted in their understanding. 

Science

• Step-by-Step Experiments: Students can create a list of steps/tasks needed to complete an experiment and check them off as they go.

• Scientific Method Meticulousness: Students learning about the scientific method can check off each step of the process as its completed. With each step, they can also take a picture, write notes, or draw an image that represents how they completed that step. 

English/Language Arts

• Crowdsourcing a Summary: Students can work together to create summaries (e.g., Sparknotes) as they read assigned chapters throughout a class. Furthermore, students can create accompanying drawings that showcase the main event (or events) in a chapter. 

• NaNoWriMo Notes: Students working on participating in national novel writing month can organize all their notes in a single place under a single label. These notes can then be shared with other participating peers, the instructor, family, or friends to gain feedback via drawing, text, or images. 

History/Social Studies

• Field Trip Field Notes: Students can use their phones to take pictures on field trips to museums or historical sites. Once taken, these images can then be appended with dictated notes describing what the student has learned from the site or artifact shown in the image.

• Historical Recreation: Students learning about historical events can draw out their visualization of how they occurred with written or dictated notes providing brief summaries. 

Other

• Organized On the Web: Students can use the Chrome extension of Google Keep to mark, organize by labels, and take quick notes about interesting articles or websites they find on the web. 

• Snapshot Journaling: Students can take a picture every day for a specified period of time (a week, a month, or a year) and write a note that describes how they are thinking or feeling. This could be used to check-in at the beginning or end of class, or to keep students engaged when learning remotely.