Category: Google Sheets

Self-Correcting Valentine’s Day Math Pixel Art Activity (Conditional Formatting)

This activity will allow you to create your own self-correcting pixel art activity for students. To modify, change the questions to match the answer responses. Once students type in the correct responses, the pixel art will start to auto-populate and create a special Valentine’s Day image! Click here for the template. Tutorial Watch the video below to learn how to...

Consolidate Assignments by Using Google Sheets

Are you creating beautiful daily lesson plans for students using Google Slides? Are your assignments posted into Google Classroom along with links, tasks, and templates and followed with a detailed checklist created in Docs? I’m sure you spent a lot of time creating these resources! But, are we creating too MANY resources and links for our students? Last week, I...

Google Sheets Holiday “Shopping”

Teach an introductory lesson to Google Sheets by doing some holiday shopping! Link to Template (Click TEMPLATE in the right corner to make a copy) What will students learn? Students will learn how to enter data, enter basic formulas, use FUNCTIONS, and create a graph by following the directions in the second tab. They can even check off the items as...

Evaluating the Authenticity of Websites

Attention Grabber It is so important that students learn to think critically about information found online. I decided to grab students’ attention by introducing the following (fake) websites and requesting student feedback. The results were far from shocking. Grade 3: Third graders decided I should NOT send my dog to Dog Island as it did not seem like a nice...

Digital Hall Passes using QR Codes

This Fall, educators are doing everything they can to provide sanitized materials for our students. But what about those old, laminated bathroom passes or sign-out notebooks? If your students have access to a device that can scan QR codes you may want to consider using digital hall passes. Most all newer model SMARTphones, tablets and laptops are able to scan...