A versatile app with tons of curriculum connectionsGoogle Drawing provides opportunities for students to explain their thinking, diagram, justify, develop, plan, describe, create and more. Students can collaborate in real-time to create graphic organizers, concept maps, timelines and much more. With the scribble tool, students can write & draw freely to solve problems & explain their thinking. Plus, drawings can be inserted into other Google documents, sheets, or presentations.
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Google Drawing can be integrated into any content area. It works whenever and wherever. Students can explain their thinking through visual images.
Graphic OrganizersStudents can organize their ideas with any kind of visual graphic. Using connector lines, students can show relationships among different concepts.
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Annotate ImagesStudents can take photos, upload their own images, or insert piks from an image gallery and tag important features, make comments, or highlight key concepts.
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TimelinesStudents can create timelines and add information for the different dates, along with images and text.
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Magnetic PoetryShakeUpLearning.com has templates for your students to create poetry with customizable word tiles within Google Drawing! Use the same concept to build sentences & vocabulary.
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Digital ManipulativesDrawings allows you to create resources that allow students to engage though manipulating objects. Students can move the hands of a clock to tell elapsed time, organize shapes into categories, problem solve with tangrams, and much more!
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Visual NotetakingStudents can record their ideas about what they are learning in virtually any content area using images, text, shapes, links and more. Students can collaborate to create digital posters to communicate and remember what they know!
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Math Problem SolvingStudents can write out solutions to math problems using the scribble tool, and then add text to explain their thinking. They can use drawing tools to demonstrate and/or explain patterns, symmetry, fractions, number operations, time, money and beyond.
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Digital Work SpaceGive students a prompt and let them use the drawing tools to draw or write freely to explain their thinking about concepts in any content area.
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Interactive GamesStudents can use drawing tools to create interactive games, or give them a template and let them play!
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Create Motivational Posters
Students could create motivational-style posters for many educational activities. Some ideas include:
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Ideas shared from Ctrl Alt Achieve, by Eric Curts
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Educator Resources
Activity Templates - Make a copy to use directly, modify or to spark an idea for another activity! You will find templates for digital manipulative ideas, game boards, graphic organizers, and more.
Integration Ideas - Linked below are IDEAS for using Google Drawing w/your students, including comic strips, visual notetaking, digital posters, magnetic poetry, analyzing maps, lots of math activities, and much more.
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Student How-to Packet and Activity Sheet
PDF of a student directions pack for using Google Drawing Tools, along with an Activity Sheet.
PDF of a student directions pack for using Google Drawing Tools, along with an Activity Sheet.
TIPS & TRICKS for working with Google Drawing
Learn to customize the dimensions of your page, maximize space on your drawing canvas, change the background color of your canvas and create your OWN icon or clip art are among the many tips & tricks that you will find here. Plus, access a list of drawing short cuts, links to a Help Center for support and more.
Learn to customize the dimensions of your page, maximize space on your drawing canvas, change the background color of your canvas and create your OWN icon or clip art are among the many tips & tricks that you will find here. Plus, access a list of drawing short cuts, links to a Help Center for support and more.