Google Docs

Google Docs


Lesson Plan

Morning Session/ Session One

July 26, 2011

Instructor – Tom Taylor

SCETV Technology Workshop











Google Docs

Once Upon A Time/Creating a Digital Fairy Tale

Gabriella Robinson

August 8, 2011



Overview

In this technology project, the students write a fairy tale. Using Google Docs, they learn how to format text and create illustrations to produce an original storybook. Through the use of Google Moderator and Google Docs students will create digital books. The students will work collaboratively in different locations ( school, home, another classroom etc). This collaboration provides the teacher the opportunity to differentiate learning for the students. The students will use sketching as a writing prompt to improve their literacy skills. This lesson will encourage the students to become active readers and writers. As a result, the students will be better able to understand the text. This lesson is a primary lesson and covers the national technology skills for grades k-3. I have used the South Carolina language arts standards for grade 2.

Materials

• Free Open Source Software ( Tux Paint) or another drawing paint program your school may have (Kid Pix Deluxe 4 etc)

• Google Docs

• Computer with Internet Access

• Google Accounts for all participating students

Strategies

Sketching

Digital Technology- Google Documents and Google Moderator, Google Presentation, Tux Paint or Kid Pix Deluxe 4

Collaboration with other students



Technology Skills



Word Processing, graphics/drawing, internet, presentation



Learning Objectives



• Open and close a document

• Open, close, save and print a file

• Locate keys on the keyboard

• Understand the function of the keyboard keys

• Gain fine motor skills to use the mouse

• Type, select and format type

• Draw and format shapes

• Create slides



Instruction



Create a Google Moderator Page for the technology project. Send the link for the moderator page to all students via email, post it in a place that is easy for students to access. ( For this activity the teacher may find it helpful to pair struggling readers with students who have very strong reading skills).

• Practice Sketching and Writing – Students practice sketching a drawing that is a setting for a fairy tale ( Once Upon A Time). The fairy tale will have a background that becomes the setting, along with characters and props that become part of the story.

• Illustrate the Fairy Tale – The students may use such software as Technokids Computer Curriculum or Kid Pix Deluxe 4 (if they are available at the school). The free software Tux Paint is also available for download. Another free resource is the Google Drawing App available in Google Docs. The drawing should have 1 or more characters, some clues about the setting and some props. The illustrations should be saved to a Common Folder.

• Write the fairy tale. The fairy tale should include characters, setting, and an event. The beginning of the fairy tale should include words related to the illustration. The reader should be able to predict the events in the fairy tale from the drawing.

• Proofread the Fairy Tale for spelling and grammar errors.

• Assembling the book.

• (Sample project: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ajb8zckp5j87_13cncjtsgt ) The teacher shares the sample project ( books published by first grade students) with the students to provide a model for their technology project. The teacher starts the Google Presentation.

• The presentation should have 2 slides (Title Slide) and a blank slide ( or a slide with information about the author). (Login to the Google Presentation can also be done with each computer station being logged into the same username and password/classroom login).

• The students will insert 2 slides for each story. On slide 1 they insert digital picture /sketch from the Common folder. On the next slide they type their story.



PRINTING THE BOOK

Use the link below for access to the printing instructions in Google Documents

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69069



Books can be printed and displayed on bulletin boards.







EXTENSION ACTIVITY – Google Moderator



• Create a Google Document and share it with students using their Google account.



• Students will partner read for this activity. Before the students have read their partner’s fairy tale, ask them to make predictions about what will happen in the story based on their partner’s illustrations.

• Also students may answer these questions on the Google Moderator page: “Was your prediction correct?” “Why or Why not?”

• When they have finished reading their partner’s story, the student’s will write an evaluation of the story. If they wish they may also write an alternative ending for the fairy tale (optional).

Google Moderator allows the students to create and evaluate. Students may post positive suggestions for improvement to the fairy tales as well as ideas which they enjoyed in the fairy tales.



Related Links

http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/ - Download Tux Paint for Free (also include Stamps)

http://www.tuxpaint.org/videos/ - Tutorials for Tux Paint

http://www.kerpoof.com/teach - Online Paint Programs (Kerpoof)

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15116 - Google Docs- Presentation Tutorial

www.technokids.com

Video Tutorials



Google Docs Overview

How to create a new Google Presentation

How to add media to a Google Presentation



How to share a Google Doc

How to print a Google Presentation



National Standards

Technology Grades K-12

NT.K-12.5 Technology Research tools

NT.K-12.6 Technology Problem-Solving and Decision Making Tools





SC ELA Standards Grade 2

Standard 2-1 The student will read and comprehend a variety of literary texts in print and nonprint formats.

Indicators

2-1.2 Analyze a given literary text to make, revise, and confirm predictions.

2-1.7 Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods ( for example, writing, creative dramatics, and the visual and performing arts).

2-5.2- Create narratives ( for example, stories and journal entries) that follow a logical sequence of events.



ASSESSMENT

The students will be evaluated using the criteria in the evaluation rubric   found at classwiki45.wikispaces.com  on the professional development page.  The evaluation rubric follows the lesson plan on that page.