Growing Up Google!

Tech Activities for Elementary Learners

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Growing Up Google!

Tech Activities for Elementary Learners

Tiffany Hursey

Instructional Tech. Specialist

thursey@bryan.k12.ga.us

Dondi Mock

Instructional Tech. Specialist

dmock@bryan.k12.ga.us

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Teaching with Google

Hyperdocs & Choice Boards

Interactive Google Slides

Voice Notes in Slides

Using Tech to Show What You Know

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Digital Breakouts

Jamboard

Flipgrid

Google Slides

Tools for Tech

Lower Elementary

• Teaches Collaboration
• Basic presentations
• Digital Books
• ABC Books

Upper Elementary

• Collaborative Presentations
• Hyperdoc Activities
• Choice Boards
• Stop Motion Animation

Hyperdocs & Choice Boards

Primary Grades

Upper Elementary

Jamboard

Reading

Social Studies

Math

Google Jamboard

• Assess prior-knowledge & Ticket Out the Door
• Student Check-In
• Author’s Purpose
• How do you want to arrange your Jam?

Let’s Try - Join the GaETC Idea Splash Jamboard

Use sticky notes to add one ideas to our board about how you will use Google Tools in your classroom.

Google Slides

Primary Grades

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CVC Word Practice

Primary Grades

Primary Grades

Upper Grades

Upper Grades

Google Slides

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Some of our favorite things to do in slides:

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• Insert audio for younger learners
• Create manipulatives
• Insert static background images
• Insert video as needed for instruction.
• Add text boxes to make assignments digital.
• Use timers for morning meeting and transitions.
• Link slides

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Google Slides

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More of our favorite things to do in slides:

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• Create infographics
• Create books with audio and video
• Weekly Center Writing Activities
• Virtual Manipulatives
• Share information
• Virtual Classrooms

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Creating Static Backgrounds in Google Slides

Background

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• Create slide that has only items that need to be in the background (unmoveable)
• Download as a JPEG or PNG
• Insert a new slide
• Set background as an image that is the downloaded previous slide
• Video

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“New” Text Box

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• Create a new slide. Select a layout that has “text boxes”
• Ex: Title and two columns
• Copy the text box that says “Click to add text”
• Paste that in your slide
• Format as you wish!!
• Video

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Stack

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• Create item
• Copy and paste the number of items needed in the stack
• Highlight only the items needed to be stacked
• Right Click on highlighted items- Align horizontally - Center
• Right Click on highlighted items - Align vertically - Middle
• Video

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Voice Notes in Google Slides

Using Audio with Google Slides

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• Record audio with Mote for Google Slides Extension.
• Audio button will automatically drop into Google Slides.

How To Video

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Example

Flipgrid

Primary Grades

Upper Grades

Flipgrid

• Lesson ideas
• Demonstrate Math Problems (Whiteboard)
• Answer a problem of the day
• Book Response
• Science & Social Studies Connections
• Share reports
• Teacher Video Instructions
• Did you know?
• You can combine Flipgrid videos.
• You can export Flipgrid video content into a spreadsheet.
• You can download QR codes for videos in a grid.

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How can my students use Google Docs?

Primary Grades

Upper Grades

Google Docs

Using Google Docs with Elementary Students

• Publish Writing
• Hyper Docs
• Choice Boards
• Graphing & Using Tables

How can my students use Google Drawings?

Google Drawing

Lower Elementary

• Teaching Number Sense
• Phonics
• Shapes
• Graphing
• Dragging & Motor Skills
• Google Skills
• Fonts
• Fill
• Colors
• Images

Upper Elementary

• Infographics
• Digital Posters
• Googlinks
• Center Activities
• Directed Drawings
• Google Skills
• Linking
• Inserting Audio
• Inserting Video
• Creating items for Use in other creations

Google Drawing

How can my students use Google Forms & Sheets?

Google Forms & Sheets

Using Forms in the Elementary Classroom

• Assessment
• Student Created Quizzes
• Content Review
• Book Review
• End of the Year Review
• Tickets OUt the Door
• Gather real world data
• Digital Breakout
• Sheets - Graphing & Design

Google Forms & Sheets

How can my students use other Google Tools?

Google Tools

Need Some Support?

Email Us (thursey@bryan.k12.ga.us)

(dmock@bryan.k12.ga.us)

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(@MockDondi)