Quick and Easy Google Activities for Kids

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Handout and Presentations
Click on ISTE 2011
Select Wed. 11:45

Google Apps for Educators is FREE.

Using Google Docs
Presentation- Use 1 slide to create a postcard where they pretend they are visiting a place they learned about and wrote a message to home. (Print as a handout so you can save paper and will print as a postcard size.

Switch settings to anyone with the link, and allow them to change. Will need to do this for each student, however you do not need a Google account to do this.

Use google doc(or word) to do I'm T-Rrific Because (kids list 5-7 reasons as to why) Move title down from the top (about 10 lines) so you can turn paper into a tee-shirt like shape.

Blogger: Post to blog by sending an email to it. (I don't know how I feel about this because then students are not going to the blog)
**Go to settings
**Email and mobile
**set up an email posting address

Students can take pictures and post to the BLOG with a caption to go along with the story.

Google Maps: Must have a Google Account
Log in and go to "My Places" then Maps. Create new maps. You can place pins on the map with descriptions and links.

Teacher can create a generic Google Account for students to use within the classroom.

In groups the students can plan to go on a tour and at each place they are going to stop at they have to include something they will do there. (3rd grade can do with State Projects, each student can mark their state and a specific place to visit there.

Google Spreadsheets and Forms

Can collaborate to collect data (great for staff meetings in lab, and of course with students)

Fill out a form under Google Docs and you will instantly collect anonymous data.

If asking for people to put in words that describe how they feel about something you can copy and paste into a Wordle. People need to not use caps b/c it will read as a separate word. www.tagxedo.com (Does same as Wordle, with option to put the words into a shape.


Click underneath a category, select formula and you can determine average, totals...

If highlight names, places to live, information go to www.batchgeo.com
* Input the data
* It marks on Google maps where everything is and when you click on a pin their information comes up.
* Have the option to then embed map or a link to it, in your BLOG

For a Quiz competition
Go to form
Question one says: Name
Question 2 says: Answer
(use tiny url to make link easier)
To use this same url again, can't delete data with just delete key, need to delete those rows!