Use the game Farkle, a dice game, to teach students how to communicate their strategies. This will allow you to focus on increasing critical thinking in your class.
Category: templates
Student-Led Conferences Template
When there’s a script or some sort of template for student-led conferences, it also helps families who speak another language.
First Slide: Push a Slide to Students
Update Student Slides with First Slide When you make a copy of a document for every student it is slow to open and give feedback. It just takes time for digital documents to load, especially if the internet is not super fast. First Slide allows you to give feedback without opening up any student slides….
Push a Prompt to Slides
Push to Slides If you would like to assign each student a different prompt or question I have coded an Add-on for Google Slides that will allow you to take a list of prompts, randomize them, and push them to an individual Google Slides per student. Template alicekeeler.com/pushtoslides After copying the template, make a list…
Fast: Create a Branching Google Form
Create a Branching Google Form Design your Google Forms to provide immediate feedback by utilizing branching options. Create multiple sections in your Form and add only one question per section that determines which section to jump to next. Answer correctly and the branching should take the student to the next question. Answer incorrectly and be…
Twitter Chat Template
Google Sheets Spreadsheet Template for Twitter Chats Twitter chats are a great way for educators to interact with other educators. Interacting with teachers not just at our school widens our access to ideas, resources, and teaching techniques. I have created a spreadsheet to help you moderate or participate in a Twitter chat. Template alicekeeler.com/twitterchat…
Water Bottle Flipping – The Game
GAMIFICATION with Google Slides. Instead of Jeopardy try a Water Bottle version for reviewing questions with students. Water Bottle Flipping is fun!
The Office is on Fire – Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration
ELA Lesson: Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An English teacher, after noticing his students were really into the television show…
BINGO!
Create a Bingo Board with Google Sheets Use Google Sheets to create multiple, different, Bingo boards from your own list. Template alicekeeler.com/bingo As with all Apps Script coding projects you need to wait a minute for the code to load. Look for the “Bingo” menu to load up next to the Help menu. Choose setUp…
GroupDocs: A Copy Per Group
GroupDocs Add-on Randomly Assigns Students to Groups In the modern world collaboration and getting along with a team is essential. Assigning students to group work can sometimes be tricky. Use my Add-on GroupDocs to assign students to groups and give each group a copy of a collaborative document. alicekeeler.com/groupdocs Steps Make a copy of the…
Outline Your Google Doc
Use the Outline Pop Out in Google Docs I really love the outline tool in Google Docs. The only problem was it was a little out of sight out of mind that unless you knew to go to the menu and select to view the outline you may not have known this was a feature….
Google Sheets: Play Connect 4
Connect 4 in Google Sheets Chris Brownell (and Sunil Singh)’s book Math Recess is a bad influence on me 🙂 In the book there is a list of games you can play to have fun with math. If I want to play these games asynchronously with someone who isn’t physically with me, Google Sheets is…
Play Yahtzee with Google Sheets
Play Yahtzee in Google Sheets! Created by Alice Keeler
Google Classroom: A Guide to Reusing Old Assignments
Create a List of Your Assignments in Google Classroom Every year is a new opportunity to be better than you were last year. This is one of the advantages to teaching, unlike any other profession we get a fresh start every year. The kids from last year are not the same as the kids from…
DELETE Google Classroom Classes
Delete Old Google Classroom Classes Before you delete old Google Classroom classes remember you can reuse assignments from old classes. One trick I do is have a class with no students; Assignment Repository. When I am assigning to my class and it’s an assignment I want to reuse for sure… I ALSO assign it to…
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