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You ARE the First Team to Arrive!

�Gamifying your Content with Google Forms &

Pam Pettyjohn

Instructional Technology Coordinator

Whitfield County Schools

706.537.3182

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GaETC 2018 Edition

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  • Google Search
  • Google Chrome
  • Google Forms
  • Google Slides
  • Google Image Search
  • Miscellaneous Tech Tools

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First things first...

  • Form a team of 3-4 people to play the game & find a place in the room where you can work together.
  • Each team will need access to a computer/laptop/Chromebook type device
  • When the starting URL is shown on the screen, the game begins!

Remember: All team members must complete the current challenge before all team members move on to the next challenge!

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THE AMAZIN RACE

You will now be given a list of challenges for your team to complete.

The team completing all of the challenges in the fastest time will be the winner.

We are doing a shortened version of the race to have time to debrief. At the end of 20 minutes, if no team has finished, the team that has completed the most challenges is the winner!!

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#Winning

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THE AMAZIN RACE

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Debrief: Form #1

Team Name and team members

After you submitted your answers, you were given instructions for your next challenge.

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You created a Google Slides presentation and made sure the file was shared with your teammates and Pam (with editing rights!)

Everyone was able to collaborate on the same document.

No one was to go onto the next challenge until all team members had completed this challenge.

Debrief - Challenge #2

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In Form #2, you pasted the URL of your Google Slides presentation and submitted to get the instructions for your next challenge.

Debrief: Challenge #2

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On slide 1, your team used INSERT > IMAGE > TAKE A SNAPSHOT to take a team picture.

Then each team member added a textbox, entered their name, and used the LINE tool to draw an arrow from their text box to where they are in the photo.

Then you went to Form # 3.

Debrief: Challenge #3

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Debrief: Challenge #3 (EXAMPLE)

Amy

Howard

Penny

Sheldon

Leonard

Raj

Bernadette

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Debrief: Challenge #4

After answering YES on Form #3, �you received Challenge #4.

You identified the man in the �Photo and his claim to fame

After answering those correctly, �you got the link to Form #5.

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Debrief: Form #5

Form #5 was password-protected. After entering the password We love GaETC, you were able to continue.

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Debrief: Challenge #5

On slide 2, you had to insert a picture of Mabel Hubbard's husband and include text box with the man's name.

Phillip Farkas was a famous instrumental musician. Find a YouTube video of someone playing the same instrument and insert it into the slide 3.

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Debrief: Challenge #5

Mabel Hubbard’s Husband? Alexander Graham Bell

Phillip Farkas was a famous instrumental musician. Find a YouTube video of someone playing the same instrument and insert it into the slide 3.

Then you were given the instructions for your next challenge on Form #6.

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Debrief: Challenge #6

For this challenge, you were given the link to the Google World Wonders Project to find the year Van Gogh painted The Starry Night

Once you submitted, your answer, you moved on to your final task...

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Idea for Classroom Use:

  • Introduce new content
  • Exam review
  • Have students create their own race!
  • Digital breakout

Special Thanks: �This activity was adapted from Wanda Terral’s Amazing Race activity: http://bit.ly/AmazRace15

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Link to slide deck and templates: http://bit.ly/GaETCracetemps

Make copies of the forms. You will have to update links once you make copies!

Pam Pettyjohn, Whitfield County Schools

pam.pettyjohn@wcsga.net

@wcstechdiva

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