Using Google Forms in
the Classroom
#1 'Getting to Know You' task
After the summer holidays when you're faced with your new class devise a quick survey to find out about your children.
Results in excellent discussions via whiteboard when looking at results
#2 Beginning of School Survey
#4 - Graph the Results of a Survey
This form allows you to have an answer sheet for short answer responses for any subject or activity.
#5 Generic Answer Sheet
#6 Reading Survey
Find out about the reading habits of your class. How does children's reading confidence link with their ability.
#7 - Playing Jeopardy � with a Survey Form as the "Buzzer"
I create questions on the unit I am teaching. I project these questions using the presentation document. (Once question per slide.) Then, I created a form where they have to submit the answer to each question. Here is a link to the form I created:�Survey: �
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFQ0cVZhZW04VXZQM1UyX0hLSExZNHc6MA��Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnuVkl1hK5dodFQ0cVZhZW04VXZQM1UyX0hLSExZNHc#gid=0��Then, I show the question and my students answer the question on the form. Then, I display the spreadsheet from the form showing who answered the question first. I check for spelling and proper typing. The first one to have all the correct cells answered on the spreadsheet get a piece of candy. ��I keep going back and forth between each question and the spreadsheet of answers. It's equivalent to the Google Form being the "buzzer" for who answered first.��I added a "Random Question" to the form. I ask them silly questions such as "What room are we in?", "Spell February.", just anything to prolong their submission and make them type some more. Then, I will joke and throw in a question like "When is my birthday?" just to see their mouths open with disgust because they don't know. Then, I change it to something else.
Dotty Clark
Computer Apps and Business Instructor
Manzano High School
#8 Grade Student Presentations
Students can grade presentations as they watch them.
Teacher can average results to grade the presentation.
Teacher can also e-mail comments to presenter(s).
@JenRoberts1
#9 Student Project Management
Reduce the headache of trying to manage large numbers of student groups who may be at different stages of a project.��Set up a Google form that allows each group to report about what stage they're at in the project, questions they may have, etc. ��I did this last year for my Science Fair projects, and it was very helpful as I conferred with each group. I could quickly look through the spreadsheet and see who was in greatest need of my help.
Science Fair Registration @Jennifer_Ewing
#10 Collaboratively Build a Timeline
Students can use a Google Form to submit events "to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines"
How to: Brian Croxall’s tutorial
An example: From Derek Bruff's class
Submitted by: @mhawksey
#11 As a classroom voting/clicker system
A single reusable Google Form for students to enter multiple choice question based responses. The teacher asks the students to go to the form (bookmarked previously) and answer A, B, C ... The teacher can then select the question by unique identifier and quickly display a response graph.
@mhawksey
#12 - Google Flip Packs: �Presentation combined with Forms �for Active Guided Learning Lessons
Combine Google Presentation, to deliver the learning content, with Google Forms, for students to explore and reflect on the material - for an engaging, active lesson and activity. Forms are great for collating and compiling student work for easy organization and analysis.
See Kate Cheal's fab GAFE presentation, Google Flip Packs, for a brilliant overview.
I've put together some helps on my website, here.
# 13 Setting Class Culture
Gather students 5 top words about what they value most as learners and present as a Wordle
@barbs1
#14 Online Reading Records
I certainly didn't invent this idea, but had heard about others doing it! I created a simple form containing
the same headings that the paper reading record all children in my class have. E.g. Name,title,
author, type of book, pages read, comments and parents/carers comments. I shortened the link to something the children could memorise using bit.ly and also linked to it via my Fronter classroom.
@OhLottie
#15 Creating a Story
Create a story with your class by collecting ideas for a story start.
e.g. Name of character?
How happy are they?
Where is your story set?
What will be the challenge for your character?
The 'story editors' can then create from the collated responses.
@stevebunce
#16 - Classroom Compare & Contrast
I have seen this done in middle school history, but it could apply to any subject and grade level. Small groups of students are asked to rank 5 to 10 items, such as most effective president, most significant supreme court case, most significant causes of the Civil War, etc. The answers are collected via a Google Form and the answers are displayed and the groups defend and debate their rankings.
#17 Truth about Students’ e-habits
Ask students to complete an anonymous survey to inform your e-safety work.
For instance do you know how many of your under 13s actually have a Facebook account, talk online to people they've never met, have a webcam in their bedroom...
You might be surprised!
# 18 Multiple Ideas
Apologies if some of these ideas are repeated elsewhere - recently did some Google forms INSET training with colleagues and these were some of their ideas from feedback and thought I'd share.
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Bibliography
Many thanks to Tom Barrett for the use of his original Power Point Presentation, 81 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the classroom.
Tom can be contacted at:
or @tombarrett at Twitter