In a previous post I mentioned the Ditch That Textbook professional development training I attended. The training was outstanding and I left with several great ideas that I have since tried implementing in the classroom. One of the ideas I have tried to use in the last couple of weeks is to use Google Drawings with students.
In geography this past week we began studying Ancient Rome. As part of our study of Ancient Rome I had the students use Google Drawings to create an Ancient Rome Fact Sheet. I provided the students with a link to a website that had many great facts about Ancient Rome. The students were then to take the information from the website and create a fact sheet about Ancient Rome to share with the class. The students were to use words, summaries, bullets, diagrams, maps, charts, graphs, drawings, and any other visual way to show what they learned about Ancient Rome.
The students enjoyed presenting what they learned about Ancient Rome in this way. In essence we were creating a poster, but using Google Drawings to do it. Some of the best posters saw students not only using pictures, but incorporating links, various colors and text boxes, and captions for their images.
In the future I plan to keep using Google Drawings as a way for students to visually share what they know and to create various projects. There were many ideas great ideas shared during the Ditch That Textbook professional development, and using Google Drawings with students was one of the best.
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