Google Apps: Part 5

GAIN: Google Drawing

     I really enjoyed using the google drawing app because you could include math if you wanted, but it gives you an opportunity to expand your horizons and create something uniquely your own. This app fits better to my learning style. I see this being used in English, Social Studies, Science, Reading, and pretty much every other subject if desired. How I saw this app being used was through the creation of propaganda posters, book writing and illustrating, comparing and contrasting of physicality's, representation of events in history, and so much more. With this application it really allows the student to get as creative as they please. Some students learn better creating and using visual objects to help them learn an objective. For those students, this is a wonderful tool.
     With the desire to teacher the middle school, of course I viewed in detail the middle school lesson plan on tangrams. Yes, this lesson is specifically to be used for math, but like stated earlier, drawings can easily be used in other facets. Google Drawings was the sole premise for this specific lesson. It is cool, that an application like this can be used in this way. The standards went hand in hand with the concept of Tangrams and how that could be taught using the drawing application. The lesson also included links to other technologies. Other technology included a youtube video and tutorial as to how to use this in the classroom. This was a great lesson plan example of how to use the application in the classroom.
     In specifically English, common core presents standards for comparing and contrasting. Why stick to the overused normal graphic organizer when you can now create your own, using Google Drawing! Students can create or the teacher can, regardless this is one example of how drawings can be put to use into Common Core Standards. Standards that can be applied to Drawings in other subjects include Math, History, and Science. This chapter from the book includes several uses of standards in multiple subjects. I really love that this application is applicable to more than one subject.

     I created a drawing, that could be a start to something educational, but was really just me exploring and figuring out this application.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1V7cYBUMYfVD-RXMHkF-7_DxoIGkJSrC4A_gl3N22hX4/edit?usp=sharing