When a teacher brings you a 10-station packet that needs to go digital and work for both face-to-face and virtual students, you turn it into an interactive HyperDoc using Google Slides. Well, maybe not all the time, but that's what work in a pinch for this activity reviewing the Texas revolution. I'm slowly, but surely getting better at creating these. With the abundance of resources from Amanda Sandoval, I was able to incorporate a drag-and-drop map labeling activity, Flipgrid, Padlet, and a mini digital breakout. You can grab a copy here!
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When I saw this tweet by Amanda Sandavol, I immediately liked, bookmarked, and retweeted because I knew it would come in handy.
Lucky for me and my 8th grade US History teachers, it came in handy sooner rather than later. Ms. Martin was looking to create a GooseChase scavenger hunt that would review Industrialization, Westward Expansion, and Reform. Within the review was one question categorizing important people to the reform movements in which they were involved. That question birthed this version of Amanda's original Drag and Drop Matching template.
Within the GooseChase, this is one mission where students will sort the people into the appropriate reform movement and take a screenshot for their evidence. Want to try it out?
Amanda's Drag & Drop Template Amanda's Tutorial: Creating Manipulatives in Google Slides Reform Drag & Drop GooseChase Game + Teacher Directions Y'all...this is seriously only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the templates & knowledge that Amanda Sandoval shares. If you're not following her on Twitter, get to clicking. You are sure to find amazing resources in her feed.
Last night, I had the privilege of presenting with Ms. Coldiron and Ms. Sears to the Frisco ISD Board as a part of the highlight on learning. They brought students with them to help board members experience the Alamo as they had in class. We worked together to write a grant to bring the Alamo to life for our Texas History students. Ms. Coldiron and Ms. Sears are leading the way with augmented reality experiences for students at Clark Middle School.
Matt Miller of Ditch that Textbook recently shared a post titled Google Slides Icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking. This post was so timely as Ms. Sears and I had just talked about students building the layout of a Spanish Mission, but not wanting the time to be mostly spent on students creating the elements of the layout. Using the gray space outside of the Google Slide canvas, Ms. Sears placed all of the elements of the Spanish mission that students would need. All students made a copy of the Google Slide presentation and listened to her reading of a story with descriptors of the Spanish mission. As they listened, they positioned the elements to appropriate locations. It was really neat to see how there were so many variations, but all correct renderings. Using the space outside of the Google Slides canvas has is a goldmine of potential.
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