After Lunch

After lunch we worked on....

• Student portfolios
• Google sites

Google Sheets

This morning we started with Google Sheets. Topics covered were:

• Conditional formatting
• Sparklines
• Pivot tables
• Neat way to take a LOT of data and boil it down to a simpler table
• Easily manipulated
• Motion charts
• Flippity quiz show - Jeopardy made easy!

Then we moved into add-ons for sheets, forms, and docs. Focused on:

• Flubaroo
• Doctopus
• Form Limiter

From here we moved to data with maps. (My Maps)

• Used the example of shark sightings

Multimedia Test Sets (MMTS)

Here is a link to a collection of resources that students can use and react to with regard to evolution and natural selection.

Using Google News in the Classroom

Main points:

• Google collects news stories for you
• Can modify so your interests appear more often
• Search for keywords and ideas

Elementary Idea: Find an article from your area (e.g. Draper, UT) and read an abbreviated version and have students respond by drawing what they hear, or write their response.

Secondary Idea: Have students read a current event article and share (tweet-length) what it is about. (As an opener)

• Alternatively: Have students read a science article (secondary) as a preview, then provide support/scaffolding as you work through the primary article as a class

Benefits of Hyperdocs

10 Best Google Chrome Apps and Extensions for the Classroom

These are a few of my favorite things....

Here is a link to my google doc with some of my favorite extensions and apps for chrome.

Google Calendar

I successfully put a calendar on my bog and set up appointment slots. The 'labs' for google calendar are simple, but useful tools to help heelp your calendar and life organized. I like auto-decline events.

Flipped learning #1

One flipped lesson I would like to try is with DNA replication. It is a tough concept to understand, and it helps to be able to do it hands on. Having the students try to replicate this at home would be difficult, if I were able to provide support I think it would go better. Flipped classroom is a type of personalized learning because it makes the content available to the students at any time, and I provide extra support in the classroom. It woul not work well for labs in the science classroom.

Google slides

We started with Google slides today. We each made a slide for 2 Truths and a Lie. I inserted gifs into my slide. Then we practiced using presenter view within Google slides. It is a new feature that is less than a month old.

First post

This is my first post!