Google Apps and

Common Core

By:Joshua C. Elliott

Common Core State Standards

What is it?● CCSS is a set of standards designed to create goals

and benchmarks that will create college ready

students. The standards are state centered on a

voluntary basis.

Significance to teachers?● Provides clear grade level goals and benchmarks that

are applicable across participating states.

Common Core State Standards

Divisions:● Math: categorized by skill domains

● English-Language Arts (ELA)

○ Four Anchor Standards

■ Reading

■ Writing

■ Speaking & Listening

■ Language

● Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects

○ Starts in sixth grade.

Why use Google Apps?● Effective use of technology in classroom should

improve learning rather than replace traditional

teaching practices.

● Share resources with students and parents.

● Student group work that teacher can monitor.

● Folders for collaboration across class or groups.

● Revision history review capabilities

● Cloud or Internet based

○ No more "It is at home or my partner is

sick and it is in their locker."

Why use Google Apps?Also enables effective teaching of 21st century skills:

Common Core of Teaching

Domain 2: Teachers promote student engagement, independence,

and interdependence in learning by facilitating a positive learning

community

Domain 3: Teachers plan instruction in order to engage students

in rigorous and relevant learning and to promote their curiosity

about the world at large

Domain 4: Teachers implement instruction in order to engage

students in rigorous and relevant learning and to promote their

curiosity about the world at large

Domain 5: Teachers use multiple measures to analyze student

performance and to inform subsequent planning and instruction

Google AppsDriveDocs

PresentationsSpreadsheets & Forms

Google Drive

Drive

What is it?● Serves as an Internet based flash drive with sharing

capabilities.

Why use it?● Share resources with students and parents.

● Student group work that teacher can monitor.

● Folders for collaboration across class or groups.

○ Ways to organize teaching and student data.

How do I use Drive?

● Uploading files

● Organizing files

● Settings

● Converting files

● Sharingo Groups

o Permissions

● Creating

Folders

● How to create folders

● Naming folders

● How to share folders

● Share settings

How to use folders

● Writing folders

○ Ways to set up folders

● Group projects

● Linking resources to Social Media

● Teacher lesson plan resource

● Student writing portfolios

Google Docs

Google Docs

● Why use it?

● Docs is similar to Microsoft Word in that

it is a word processing program. However,

it has several strengths over Microsoft.○ Collaboration

○ Revision history review capabilities

● Internet based○ No more "It is at home, or so and so is sick and it

is in their locker."

Google Docs and Common Core

Anchor Standards:● Develop and strengthen writing as needed by

planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new

approach.

● Use technology, including the Internet, to produce

and publish writing and to interact and collaborate

with others.

● Write routinely over extended time frames (time for

research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time

frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range

of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

How to use Docs

● A tour

● Uploading an existing document

● Creating a doc

● Renaming

● Sharing

● Templates

● Downloading

Google Docs Ideas

● Lesson plan collaboration

● Class notes

● Meeting minutes

● Peer editing

● Publishing student work

● Student collaborative writing

● Letter translation for parents

● Teacher document collaboration

● Student journals

Google Docs Templates

● Collaborative notetaking: Jigsaw Template

● Peer review papers: AP Psychology Essay

Peer Edit Rubric

● AP Psychology essay prompt from

APCentral.collegeboard.com Essay Prompt

● Learning Team Charter: Charter

● Lesson Plan Template: Template

Google Presentations

Why use Google Presentations?

● Increases productivity in student group projects.

● Presentations can be easily shared with others.

○ Student to teacher (Submit)

○ Student to student (Collaboration)

○ Teacher to student (Missed work & for

facilitation of notetaking)

○ Teacher to teacher (Collaboration)

Google Presentations

● Relevant CCSS anchor standardso Make strategic use of digital media and visual

displays of data to express information and

enhance understanding of presentations.

How to use Google Presentations

● A tour

● Uploading an existing document

● Creating a doc

● Features

● Renaming

● Sharing

● Templates

● Downloading

How to use Presentation continued

● Customizing slides

● Animations

● Inserting

o Text Box

o Images

o Video

o Word Art

o Lines & Shapes

o Tables

● Other tools, tips, and resources

Google Presentations lesson ideas

Student presentations

Comments and chats for making comments

and collaborating remotely.

Google Presentation take aways

Chalkboard Template

Google Spreadsheets

& Forms

Google Spreadsheets & Forms

Forms is an excellent app for collecting data

on any topic. Questions can be created in

several formats:

● Text

● Paragraph

● Choose from a list

● Checkboxes

● Multiple Choice

● Scale

● Grid

Spreadsheets ideas

● Sign-up sheets

● Data collection

Forms ideas● Sign-up sheets

● Data collection

● Formative & summative assessments

o Flubaroo

o Form emailer

● Surveys

● Rubrics

● Online reading records

● Collecting any data

● Book review

● Reflection or debriefing

● Exit ticket

● Flipped Lessons

Spreadsheets & Forms Take Aways

AP Sample Essay Rubric

Rubric for Oral Presentation

Group Peer Evaluation

Credibility Form

Team Work Log

Weekly Reflection

Book Review

Google Apps and Technology Lesson Ideas

Sample Flipped Lesson

Search Tips

Quotation Marks: Use quotes to search for an exact word or phrase. This

is useful for searching for quotes.

Dashes: Put a dash before a word you want to exclude from a search.

Tilde: Use a tilde (~) before a term to include its synonyms.

Site:query: Use site: to search within a specific website.

Link:query: Use link: to search for sites that link to the specified site url.

Two periods: Use two periods between two numbers to express a range.

Related:query: Use related: to find sites that are related to the specified

site.

Resources

20 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

10 Tips for Better Google Search Results

Common Core Website