Making things all caps (or not)

While you may be familiar with some of the formatting options in Google, did you know you can easily change the text to ALL CAPS?  Or all lowercase?  Or Just Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word?  In her blog post here, Alice Keeler explains it all!

Learn that grammar!

Looking for something (other than SchoolHouse Rock) to make grammar fun?  Explore the new Cram Jam channel in Discovery Education.  This channel is geared for 2-6 grades.

Support for science (all grades!)

PBS has shared their recent science resources and there is something for all grades!  From exploring the scientific method with sloths to elephant surveys, there is something for everyone.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

These 17 goals, adopted by the United Nations, are designed to make a better (and sustainable) life for all people.  TeachersFirst has curated resources (for all grade levels) to help you teach these goals.

Never too early for a virtual field trip!

Discovery Education recently shared their upcoming virtual field trips here.  You can get a brief description of the event as well as the grade level.  If the timing doesn’t work for you, all virtual field trips are recorded and available on demand in Discovery Education.

Forms into Presentations

 

Looking for a way to incorporate live feedback into your presentations? While there are several polling tools, the easiest way might be to embed the question responses (from Google Forms) into your Google Slide.  CottenTechCoach has shared a brief video that will walk you through the process.

If a picture is worth 1000 words,

Then you will love these 145 pictures prompts from the New York Times. You can use them for a variety of writing activities.

Drag and Drop in Google Slides

 Kasey Bell shared her how-to steps for creating drag and drop activities in Google Slides.  For more information, please see here post here.  Here is her video:

National Park Resources

One of the benefits of TeachersFirst is their feature-curated sites.  This summer, they shared this one focused on National Parks.  This might be useful in your social studies classes.

Google Forms Update

Finally, formatting has come to Google Forms.  Here’s the official update:

In addition to new options for styling fonts, rich text formatting is now available in Google Forms, enabling you to customize and add emphasis to your forms. This highly requested feature allows you to use bolding, underlining, italicizing, hyperlinks, and lists in titles, question titles, and descriptions. 

Here is a sample:

Want even more fonts? See this post from Alice Keeler.