Google Activities for Kids!

Presenter - Tammy Worcester
Handouts

The Google Activities Tammy showed us today require a Google Account for teachers, but not necessarily for the students

Google Maps - Teacher can login and create a map, adding place-markers and details

• Markers to follow along different places with a book
• If you couldn't live in Virginia, where would you live - add details about why
• Rock band going on tour - mark tour locations on map and what would you do in your spare time?
• *Scribble Maps* - students can create a map without logging in. They can save the map, e-mail it, or even embed it into a blog or webpage. They can choose a mapID to access the map later. They then create a password so they can edit the map later.

Google Docs (Drive)

1. Free
2. Collaborative - you can potentially have up to 50 people in a Google Doc at the same time
3. Cloud Based - can access from anywhere

Collaborative Spreadsheet - Create and share out, then go to tinyurl.com

• Ex: tinyurl.com/twvste1
• Google Form - Sample Survey - tinyurl.com/twvste2
• Tools - Show Summary of Responses to show graphs of multiple choice and checkbox items
• **batchgeo.com - paste info with location data, and it will map including the data with each placemarker. You can then save that map to edit later, or to share out, embed on a site

Collaborative Word Cloud 

• Start in a spreadsheet and type your questions across the top, then create a form from there - Ex: tinyurl.com/twvste3
• Kids fill out with name and words to describe _____ (ex: words to describe a famous person, etc.) - good way to collect words before going to wordle.com or **tagzedo.com (similar to Wordle, but it allows you to put the word cloud into a shape.

Quizzes with Google

• Tammy's Tips and Tricks on her website, she has a tip of the week - #81 has templates for quizzes - use the form to collect data, put your answers at the top then it will score for you.