The Secrets of a google ninja
Going the Google Mile
Teacher Edition
Christy Fennewald
Experienced Educator
Technology Integration Coordinator
Google Certified Teacher
Google Certified Trainer
Common Sense Media Ambassador
Flipped Certified Teacher
GEG CENTX Leader
Your Challenge:
Find ONE tool you can use to make change with you or your students. Tweet that change to #googlesecrets, #googleedu.
Your Guide to the Secrets
The Secrets of Safety
Learn ways to stay safe online
Digital citizenship
Keep your family safe
Go to Google’s Safety Center and manage your online profile - choose what apps have access to and what they don’t. This is a must-have for the 21st century!
Save your favorites
Go to “Google Save” to save and organize images and Websites in one location. The best part - you save your images virtually that you find online without downloading!
Do a Security Check-up
Did you know you can do a security check-up on your Google account? Verify what devices should have logged onto your account, manage what applications can and can’t see, and much, much more!
Google Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Google Digital Citizenship Curriculum - aimed at classrooms - has a curriculum ready to rollout for secondary students! Revise the lessons or stick with the template.
AfterSchool Tech Tool Kit
Afterschool tech tool kit- The Afterschool Tech Toolkit aims to empower afterschool professionals and educators with strategies and training so they can provide students with powerful access to technology outside of classroom hours.
The Secrets of
Problem Solving
Learn ways to Bring Code & Design
into your classroom
let’s get those girls coding!
Want your girls to have some resources for coding? Check out
And, join the
G+ Community to get more connections and discussions going.
Or Mix a little art with a little code...
Google Dev Art: Combine coding and art and submit your results
And build your own rubik’s cube...
Google Chrome Cube Lab: Create your own Rubik’s Cube
And build your own Lego Structures
Let’s Build with Chrome: Chrome and Lego team up to build replicas in Google +
Attend a maker camp this summer
It’s FREE! Yes, FREE! Google and Make partnered to create the Summer Maker Camp, a virtual camp for tinkering, creating, and making. 6 weeks of non-stop learning.
Attend Camp Google
Camp Google is a free summer camp that gets kids learning through fun, interactive science activities and adventures.
Steam with The Connectory
Stay up-to-date with all of the STEAM events in your neighborhood with The Connectory.
Let Google BuilD your CS Program
Google’s CS First lays the groundwork for you in developing a Computer Science Program. Choose from a variety of focus areas to learn and explore. Code: AWESOME!
Find CS lessons in CS Custom Search
Google’s Computer Science Custom Search Engine lets users search K-12 lessons from all over the world in computer science.
Develop Android Apps
Google & Udacity combined to create many courses on Android development.
Solve for <x>
Solve for <x> is Google’s Moonshot thinking. It’s a matchmaker and a platform connector bringing individuals and organizations - who otherwise may not interact with each other - into the same space to discuss and advance moonshot projects.
The Teacher’s Guild
Partnered with Google, it brings together teachers to collaborate and solve 30 education challenges in three years. Building on each others’ ideas, we will amaze our students, schools and the greater system with a flood of new and better solutions designed by and for teachers.
Revealing Science secrets
Learn ways to explore the
human anatomy
Turn your phone into a science journal
Science Journal can turn your Android device into a tricorder of sorts. The app uses the sensors in your smartphone to gather, graph and visualize data. For example, you can use Google's Science Journal app to measure sound in a particular area over a particular period of time, or the movement of the device's internal accelerometers.
Explore the human body with
Zygote Body (formerly Google Body Browser)
Biodigital Human (a Chrome Web Extension - login with Google)
Compete in a virtual science fair
Google Science Fair is is a global online science and technology competition open to individuals and teams from ages 13 to 18.
Take a Round-the-World Solar Flight
Google sponsors Solar Impulse, a site dedicated to exploring these solar flights launching around the world. Review a pilot’s vital signs and track these planes LIVE. The data is impressive and instantaneous.
Make Solar Power a Reality
Project Sunroof puts Google's expansive data in mapping and computing resources to use, helping calculate the best solar plan for you.
Explore Earth’s Changes
Global Forest Change Explorer provides easy access to forest change data across the planet. Use the tool to analyze trends within countries and ecoregions and dive deeper into the underlying causes of forest change at specific hotspots.
Send a robot to the moon
The MoonBots challenge is for students ages 8-17 and encourages them to build a robot for the Moon. Make your own team or join an existing one.
Relax & Watch The Science Show
The SciShow is a free YouTube channel for upper elementary students and beyond while SciShow Kids is for early elementary. Check it out & expand your brain powers.
The cultural &
Historical Secrets
Learn ways to enhance your
calendar experience
Or get cultured with...
Discover the power of women
March is International Women’s Month. Explore Google’s Women Summits around the world and get involved in gender equality! There is so much for all genders on this site.
Double the dose of female power
TECHNOLOchicas is a collaborative project of the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) and Televisa Foundation designed to raise awareness among young Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology.
Give to Make change
Through the Google One Today, you can give to causes that mean something to you. This is a great resource for finding service project ideas as well. Find associated organizations and more material about the causes.
raise Awareness for disabilities
Google’s Impact Challenge Disabilities works to identify the largest barriers for those with disabilities. Join now to help the cause!
The secrets of scheduling
Learn ways to maximize
your google calendar experience
Book an appointment at...
Click Login-->Via Google
The Secrets of Geography
Learn the extras of Maps
and Geo Tools
And take Field trips for...free!
Get your Geo on with...
Geoguessr: Compete with others to “name that place” by guessing the location of a street view image on a Google Map.
Geosettr: Use Geosettr to create your own Geoguessr challenges for you and your students!
Test your GEO knowledge even further with...
Earth Picker, an application similar to GeoGuessr, but with slightly different options.
Challenge your “Smarty” Geo Trivia
Use Smarty Pins to challenge your geo trivia. Similar to Earth Picker and GeoGuessr, but with a more localized turn.
Take a Night Walk with...
Google Nightwalk: Search your own paths, build your own paths, and explore the sights and sounds of a city at night.
Explore the world inside & out
Google World Wonders Project: Explore the wonders of the world - above and below ground - using Google’s streetview technology
Take a field trip to Versailles...
With Google Art Project, a site that houses thousands of collections of artwork and allows viewers to explore with Google's Street View technology. (Try searching Palace of Versailles)
Take a road trip to the national parks
With Google’s Arts and Culture, travel to the National Parks on a journey many never get to experience.
World Map
With World Map, you can type in a word, map it and hear its translation across the globe! And, guess what? You can also learn about the word! It combines power of Google Translate and the collective knowledge of Wikipedia to put into context the relationship between language and geographical space.
Combine virtual reality with Geography
With the use of Google’s Cardboard and the Expeditions kit, bring virtual field trips one step closer to real life!
Build Virtual & Augmented Reality
Google Blocks lets users build colorful 3D models in VR. It is supposed to be intuitive enough for newcomers to use, but full-featured enough to support making artistically compelling models. Users can export objects and make them viewable online.
Build Virtual & Augmented Reality
Google is opening a new platform called Poly where people can find and distribute virtual and augmented reality objects. The tool is integrated with Tilt Brush and Blocks, respectively Google’s VR painting and sculpting apps, and is meant to provide an art library for people building with Google’s ARCore, Apple’s ARKit, or various VR development platforms.
Combine Literature with Geography IN Google Lit Trips
With Google Lit Trips, you can either create new literature journeys on Google Earth or choose from a variety of pre-created lessons.
Cross-Curricular Geography IN Google Earth Walks
The geo sister to Lit Trips, Earth Walks lets you explore the world. During a Google Earth Walk, students engage in real-world problem solving as they work their way through a virtual tour on Google Earth.
Location History
Google Maps tracks your steps. Retrace them in Location History. Wondering where your phone is? Check Location History. Want to find your child? Check Location History.
And sets your sights high in the sky with...
And, check out the flight simulators available at...
Find more about your location with Google Goggles
Get the Google Goggles app to take pictures of your location, allow Google to search its databases, and provide you with immediate information on the location. Too cool!
Take a Field Trip with Field Tripper
Get the Field Tripper app and, as you move about a city or location, it will fill you will facts and images about the location.
Help out the Tigers
With Tiger Tracker, you can measure your own distance walking/traveling each day against the tigers. Your participation goes to help save tigers. Join the project & help save tigers!
The Secrets of Discussion and collaboration
Learn the Extras of Groups,
Storytelling, and other
discussion tools
Transformation Center
Share your transformation idea or sign into your Google account to gain access to a collaborative Google Doc with plans for transforming your school.
Tell stories with...
Google Story Builder - Read the how-tos here. Or, check out the Master’s Edition to communicate with historic authors.
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Or, use an alternative:
Google Groups, also available in the Google Apps for Education domain. However, Groups adds a management feature and blogging element unique to Groups.
And now, there is Google Classroom!
Hangout with 15 others on...
Google Hangouts, a free way to connect via Web, computer, voice, video, recording and more. Not just for Skype purpose, but can also do Live Streaming. Now, that Google + is integrated into Google Apps, this is more available. However, it can be used with a standard Google Account and up to ten other devices.
Check out the Google Duo app as well!
Bring Awareness to your hangouts with...
Hype my Hangouts! Create videos to promote your upcoming hangouts in a cool & stylish manner!
Ping Pong Hangouts!
New to Google Hangouts? Try Ping Pong Hangouts as a Hangout App to get you familiar with all of Hangouts’ wonderful features.
Collaborate with others around the world with...
Connected Classrooms Workshop. Join this community of educators to become part of virtual field trips and to connect classrooms around the world. Want to hold a book discussion with a school in India? Post in the Google + community and you’ll be connected quickly!
Join in a Global Lesson Plan
At GoogleEdu On Air 2015, they announced a Global Lesson Plan in honor of the UN’s day on Sept. 25, 2015 to create a set of goals for the world that aim to make our planet fair, healthy and sustainable by 2030. Join by registering and creating a global lesson!
Join The Great Thanksgiving Listen
Using the StoryCorps mobile app, participants can upload their relatives’ recordings to the StoryCorps archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. In one holiday weekend, capture an entire generation of American lives and experiences.
Or get schooled with...
Google Spell Up: Verbal spelling games
The Secrets of Searching
Learn How to beef up your
searching skills
Get Applied Digital Skills
Go to Google’s CS First, which now includes Applied Digital Skills to find curriculum for middle school and high school teachers or resources for ms and hs students.
Be Internet Awesome
To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence.
Search for the Best FLights
Introducing...Google Flights! What can you do with Google Flights? Check it out! Find the cheapest flights and the best travel routes. Seriously, check this out!
Become a Power Searcher and create stories
By taking Google's free Power Searching course
Google Search Stories: Website, YouTube, Google Blog
You cannot create these stories anymore, but you can watch them
Create your own personal or shared space
Spaces are topic-focused hubs where you and your designated friends and colleagues can interact and exchange content. Students working on a collaborative project can create a Space for their project and start sharing links, content and hold discussions and even live conversations about their work.
Test your skills with a google a day
A Google a Day gives a new challenge each day to test your searching skills. Google asks a question and you have to find the answer. A quick entry ticket activity!
Build your own custom search engine
Go to Google Custom Search and build your own search engines so students can only search certain sites while still appearing to be searching Google.
Improve your searching with knowledge graph
Feeling sick? Use Google’s Knowledge Graph, you can search things like “what is celiac disease?” and relevant facts will populate from knowledge graph. Do this right from Google Search!
Find what others are searching for
Go to Google Trends to find the top search terms that are trending right now. Choose any country to see how search terms vary or stay similar.
Become the Renaissance man/woman
With CrashCourse & CrashCourse kids, you can take courses on any subject imaginable. No need to search - it’s all right there!
The Evolution of the Web
Use this interactive timeline to explore how the Web has evolved overtime!
Find loved ones after a disaster
Google Person Finder lets you find your loved ones after a disaster. It is only launched after a disaster and is part of the Google Crisis Response project.
Great Google Search
For High School and beyond, this presentation contains some of my most effective searching tools from Google. Check ‘em out!
Analyzing Trends & Gaps
Go to Trendalyzer, also known as Gapminder to create bubble charts that will animate your data. Use these charts in any presentation!
FrightGeist
With Frightgeist, check out the most searched Halloween costumes & compare how that relates to actual purchases.
Correlate data and Trends
Google Correlate finds search patterns that correspond to real world trends. Enter your own data or search existing parameters. The possibilities are immense!
The Secrets of Fine Arts
Learn Tools & Projects
For Fine Arts
And Make Music, Videos & More...free!
Create a doodle or two
Yes, you can design the doodle that appears on Google Search pages. With Doodle 4 Google, students can create doodles based upon a theme and submit them to Google. Winners in each group earn prizes and their doodle is featured on the Google search page!
Enter the world of performing arts
With Performing Arts, journey through the world of performing arts and watch the world’s greatest performers come to life in 360 degrees.
Start a Collaborative Jam with...
Jam with Chrome: Host a virtual Jam session with your friends. Think of the possibilities!
Explore Music at Chrome Music Lab
Chrome Music Lab is a collection of experiments that let anyone, at any age, explore how music works. They're collaborations between musicians and coders.
Tour Abbey Road & Studio one
Record a jam session in Studio One and tour Abbey Road. Experience the London Symphony record in 360 degree views! The learning is endless in this virtual journey through Abbey Road.
Become a design superstar
With Google Design, you can explore how Google goes about designing. You can read their design guidelines, download assets and resources, meet the team, and learn about job and training opportunities.
Journey into a Creative Gallery
With Think With Google’s Creative Gallery, you can search ideas that blend creativity with technology. Many cool examples to choose from!
Learn all about YouTube & Then some
With the YouTube Creator Academy. Beef up on your YouTube skills.
Learn Art Online
With the KQED Art School, you can enjoy FOR FREE a series featuring contemporary artists working in performance, digital art, & more. Meet artists and learn about their personal histories and intentions, then learn how to make all kinds of art.
Create silent films To Share
The Peanut Gallery: Speak to a collection of silent films and it will instantly convert it to a text overlay for a silent film. Think of the possibilities for Language Arts, Drama, and Social Studies!
The Secrets of Data
Manage your data
View data
Manage your Website & Website data
With Google’s WebMaster tools, you can get data, tools and diagnostics for a healthy, Google-friendly site.
Check Email Encryption & Security
Email encryption is a serious thing. Not all providers encrypt their messages. Google’s Transparency Report allows consumers to view data on this topic.
The Secret Experiments
Learn Google’s Secret Experiments
in Chrome and Google Apps
Shhhh! It’s Chrome’s Secrets
Looking for some hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, try out Google Chrome's WebGL Experiments.
Links to Let's Get Chromified (Best Google Apps)
Get your apps and extensions at the
Top Secrets
Top Chrome Experiments include
Android Apps
Top “secret” Android Apps include
What are some other great Google pieces?
Where do I find this stuff?
RighTS
The Secrets of a Google Ninja by Christy Fennewald is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The Secrets of a google ninja
Going the Google Mile
Teacher Edition