Here are your 3 tips that you can use in your classroom today for the week of November 12, 2018.
1 - Google's "Be Internet Awesome"
Google’s "Be Internet Awesome" gives educators the tools and methods they need to teach digital citizenship and online safety fundamentals. The materials, developed by Google in partnership with online safety experts like the Family Online Safety Institute, ConnectSafely, and iKeepSafe, enable educators to empower their students to be smart, alert, strong, kind, and brave online.
K-6th grade teachers who participate in Google’s Be Internet Awesome program with their students will receive a $100 DonorsChoose.org gift code!
Click Here to get started!
2 - Turkey Talk with Google Slides
Thanks to Eric Curts at ControlAltAchieve.com for these ready to use Writing templates themed around Thanksgiving!
Build a Turkey
In this Google Slides template the students build a turkey by copying and pasting eyes, beaks, feathers, feet, hats, wattles (yes that's what they are called), and extras onto their blank turkey body. When done the students write about the turkey they created.
Disguise a Turkey
In this Google Slides template the students try to disguise their turkey so he will be safe from becoming the Thanksgiving Day dinner. They do this by copying and pasting masks, costumes, hats, accessories, and shoes onto their turkey. Then they write a story about their disguised turkey and how it will stay safe.
3 - Use Cool Text in Google Classroom!
You cannot format text in Google Classroom assignments or announcements. But that doesn’t mean you can’t put fancy text in them! The “Cool Fancy Text Generator” will let you copy all sorts of fun fonts into your Google Classroom posts to highlight individual words or phrases.
Go to the Cool Fancy Text Generator (https://coolsymbol.com/cool-fancy-text-generator.html)
Scroll through the styles to find the one you want and click the “Decorate” button next to it.
Type your text in the “Input Text” field.
Use the copy button above to copy it for pasting into Google Classroom.
We know Kahoot and Quizizz or Quizlet for vocab review but that requires learning a new website, having students go multiple places and a different way of sharing back to the teacher or the class. Using Google Slides to make Vocab review and self quiz's is simple, collaborative, easy to use with Google Classroom and simple enough for any age student. Take a look and see how you can assign a collaborative project tomorrow!! Here's how to use the template in less than 10 mins.
Template - http://bit.ly/2QwqjNc
