Instructional Strategies

Use Google Slides (or other cloud-based presentation tool) as visuals to organize your lesson and embed a YouTube video of a timer in each slide to help you keep pace

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Instructional Strategies

Use YouTube timer or Slides speaker notes timer during talking points

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Instructional Strategies

Use Google Forms with short videos and questions to learn at student pace

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Instructional Strategies

Flip the learning! Digitize your lessons by creating short video screencasts with Explain Everything (paid), Educreations, or Screencastify and have students watch in small groups or at home to save time during class

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Instructional Strategies

Explore different perspectives in Google Newspapers

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Instructional Strategies

Start your day off with A Google a Day or Google Feud to build perseverance and solid search skills

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Instructional Strategies

Create math art with Desmos to practice graphing

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Instructional Strategies

Capture and improve performance with Coach’s Eye app (mobile devices).

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Instructional Strategies

Let students practice their speaking skills with Voki

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Instructional Strategies

Give students time to reflect on their learning by creating a screencast using Explain Everything (paid) or Educreations (free).

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Instructional Strategies

Use Voice Typing and Translate Document feature in Google Docs

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Instructional Strategies

CraftyText to type directions onto the screen in real time

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Instructional Strategies

Use Powtoon to create a video with directions for students using one of the templates

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Instructional Strategies

Expose your students to some of the finest works of art with Google Cultural Institute

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Instructional Strategies

Post directions in Google Classroom or OneNote Class Notebook and attach a rubric

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Instructional Strategies

Create Slack channels for curated student discussion

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Instructional Strategies

Use Cast for Education to project directions for whole group while teaching small group

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Instructional Strategies

Teach geography the fun way with Mystery Skype!

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Instructional Strategies

Connect with another class in Skype in the Classroom

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Instructional Strategies

Make student thinking visible by creating a screencast with Explain Everything ( paid) or Educreations (free)

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Instructional Strategies

Ask students to respond using visuals with Google Drawings, Canva, PicMonkey, or Google Slides (or other cloud-based presentation tool)

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Instructional Strategies

Use Google Forms to track data before and after an activity

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Instructional Strategies

Use Google Sites or SeeSaw to create digital portfolios to show student growth

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Instructional Strategies

Use Voxer to create a virtual student discussion

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Instructional Strategies

Give students time to respond in a Learning Management System like Google Classroom, Edmodo, or Schoology or in a Google Form before having a discussion

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Instructional Strategies

Use Google Classroom or other Learning Management System to assign differentiated tasks to each group

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Instructional Strategies

Have students create their own map with text, images and videos in MyMaps.