GAIN Google Drawing

Google drawing is one of the most valuable tools that is offered through Google in my opinion. It is a great resource in all different types of ways. When I examined the lesson plan for the elementary school and played with Google drawings ideas were flooding into my head of so many ways that I can use this app to enhance my students learning experience. When looking specifically at the lesson plan, I noticed that one of the standards that was in the lesson were talking about the attributes of different geometry shapes. Using Drawing is a great tool to help the students learn the attributes. Being able to play with the shapes, move the shapes around, and examine all sides of the shapes can help the students really get a feel for what that shape looks like. It is also a great way for graphic organizers, templates, and many other useful tools to help the students work on presentations or a paper of some sort. It can also be paired with other types of math, not just including geometry. It can work with puzzles and other things like that to help the students learn and get the hands on experience. Flow charts are another tool to incorporate the drawing with along with math and science, which gets the students more excited and involved in learning. This could be a great tool to use with Centers in any form because it gives the students a change to create their own creations, and gives the teacher a way to look at what they are doing. Common Core standards ask for recreating or retelling of stories, and I think this could be a great tool for the students to use to recreate what they are reading about. Although the book does not specifically give standards that can be paired along side of the Google Drawing, it gives examples and explanations of how to use the program along side of Common Core Standards. Using Google Drawing can help enhance the students experience and develop their learning through technology. The standards from Common Core are easy to pair with and develop standards and objectives that match using Google Drawing. I will certainly use this app in my classroom.