I had recently discovered Google
Photos when I saw that my phone’s memory was low and I needed to free up some
space. I was able to erase the pictures and they were saved in my Google
Photos. I really love that the photos are now uploaded and that it creates
videos.
My first idea for using Google
Photos in the classroom would be for them to create an album. I would use
Google Photos for a 3rd grade Science lesson. I will assign a topic
as we are finishing a unit. The students will be responsible for taking photos
and uploading them to their album. An example would be heat. They would have to
take pictures of things that give heat. They would have to add a description
explaining what is happening in their picture. Another idea for this same grade
level and subject would be to have students create an album based on photos
they take when making experiments. Students would take pictures of the materials,
steps and then show final results. They would be asked to add a description
where they explained what they were doing.
My second idea would be for
students in 2nd grade. This lesson would be for Language Arts. Students need to
be able to summarize. I think using Google Photos would be a great way of doing
this. I would have students take pictures or find photos and do a retell of the
latest story we have read. I would have them add a description to each photo so
that I would be able to assess that they understood that a summary doesn’t
include every single detail that happened in the story. I would do this lesson
at least 2 a month.
The third activity would also be
for Language Arts but for students in 5th grade. In this case I
would use it for finding synonyms. I would give each student a word. They would
be responsible for finding synonyms. They would then look for pictures of those
words and create an album. They would have to order the words meaning least to
most. For example, if the word was mad. They could use words like upset, angry,
irate, furious, and enraged. Then they order them to show the pictures from
where the person seems a little annoyed to enraged.
These would
be some ideas for using Google Photos. I think using Google Photos in the
classroom would be engaging for students. Most of them love taking selfies, and
this is a great way for them to use it for their education.
Hi Claudia, I agree with you Google Photos is an excellent tool that allow the user to save their photos from their phones to free space. The good thing is that the users can always view the saved pictures just logging into their Google account. I like your ideas for your third grade science lesson.
ReplyDeleteHello Claudia,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the album you created. The ideas that you gave were also really creative. The fact that you can teach the students a science content and then have them use this tool to research examples in the real life and be able to understand the content more in depth.
Hey Claudia,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post this week. I think that you provided some great ideas and lessons for students to carry out, spread all over different grade levels. My girlfriend is a 2nd grade teacher and always looking for new, innovative ideas to incorporate into her classroom and your ideas are definitely some that I will share with her. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Claudia,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading about your idea for science. Teaching with google photos does make everything more engaging. Even when we already have great lessons, just by adding the web tool to them makes a stronger impact on the students in our class. Thank you for sharing your ideas.