Image 6: Working on a story mountain activity.
Image 8: Creating a sentence activity or magnetic poetry.
Image 9: Insert dice images from Lesson Pix to create a math activity.
tool that I really enjoy using for images is Lesson Pix (https://lessonpix.com/) This program is easy to use and has a wide variety of templates to choose from to create activities. They also have ready to use activities that you can further customize. In this example, I used the opposites matching worksheet and the student used their iPad and drawing tools to draw a line to the correct answer. d. Magnetic word bank: (See image 8) Many educators have created either word bank or magnetic poetry templates in Google Slides and Google Drawing. For some great free templates, Kasey Bell at Shake Up Learning ( https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/winter- magnetic-poetry-with-google-slides/) has a variety of seasonal magnetic poetry templates that are a great place to start and customize for your grade level. In Google Jamboard, this example shows a modification of the winter magnetic poetry. This activity was created for the preschool/early elementary level to describe what the snowman is wearing. This activity can be customized by inserting additional text boxes to expand the vocabulary for the different levels of writing.
Image 7: Integrating a Lesson Pix worksheet during English.
with writing, if they have the premium version of Read&Write for Google Chrome, they can use the word prediction and talk&type (speech to text) features to assist with spelling and writing support. b. Let’s brainstorm: students and teachers can use the sticky note feature to brainstorm ideas, both synchronously and asynchronously. For more templates using Google Jamboard for graphic organizers, I would recommend visiting the “Ditch that Textbook” blog by Matt Miller: https://ditchthattextbook.com/jamboard/ c. Opposites matching worksheet (See image 7) Another
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