Google Apps Lesson Plans

The first lesson plan I found that I liked on Google Apps is titled: "Graphing with Google Docs and Forms". It is a math lesson for grades K-3. This lesson is great for the beginning of the school year! It is all about getting to know your classmates. Basically, the teacher creates a Google Form where she collects information from her class by asking them questions like: How many brothers and sisters do you have? How many pets do you have? What is your favorite color? What activities do you enjoy doing? Then she uses the Google Spreadsheet to view a summary of the data for the students to analyze and draw conclusions. The students will answer the teacher created questions and decide what is true about the data. The teacher will copy the link to the Live Form and post it on her Classroom or School Website in a location that is easy for the students to find. The students will complete and submit the Google Form and draw conclusions from the results. The teacher can gather the entire class where they can view the results on the Interactive Board. She can show them the summary and the bar graph of the results. The teacher can ask guiding questions for the students to start interpreting the information. This will help the students to understand their classmates as well as how to read and interpret different kinds of graphs. There is also a rubric for evaluation as well as the standards already listed on this lesson plan!

The second lesson I found on Google Apps is titled: "Telling Time and Google Calendar". It is a math lesson for grades K-3. This lesson introduces the agenda format on Google Apps as another way to tell time. It discusses the use of digital and analog clocks to teach students how to read and calculate time as well as shows students how to see "blocks" of time on the agenda format. This allows them to find different ways to think about and visualize segments of time. The lesson starts with a review of time knowledge. Then the teacher reviews the passage of time, and finally introduces the agenda format on Google Calendar to the students. After teaching the students how to work with you, the teacher, on how to finish today's agenda using Google Calendar, you assign an individual exercise on making your own agenda thinking about what a perfect Saturday looks like to you, the student. Different ability levels can be challenged at their level - some students can work with hour-long blocks and others can start breaking down their agendas into 15 or 30 minute segments. This lesson also provides the standards which apply.

I thought it was relatively easy to find lesson plans on Google Apps. And, it is great that they provide the standards and some of them even provide a rubric for evaluation. I would definitely use this site to find interactive lesson plans for my class! I thought this was a fun assignment!