My Experience:
- I had never used Google Drawings before this assignment, but it is definitely a tool that I will make use of in the future. Everything about this tool is straight forward. What I love about Google Drawings is that it has a sole purpose of formatting an image-- it is not a tool that is embedded in another resource like a word processor. This means that the features are very accessible in comparison. For example, if one were to create a shape in word, they would have to right-click that shape, click format, and then navigate a formatting menu in order to change the fill and line colors. With Google Drawings, these options are found right in the toolbar at the top. I think in the future I will definitely create my images using Google Drawings before I insert them into another document.
Exploring Shapes Lesson Plan:
- This lesson plan gives students the freedom to play around with shapes by rotating and flipping them. Students would become acclimated with the concept of a 90-degree turn, horizontal and vertical flipping. I believe that the lesson would be easy for students at the primary level to complete. Teachers could make the lesson more engaging by asking students to duplicate a previously created image by using only a few shapes. This would encourage students to rotate and flip shapes in order to place them in a previously determined pattern.
Graham Chapter 8:
- Graham emphasizes the fact that by using Google drawings, students can create collaborative drawings that express learning. Many different types of images can be created by students for use in the classroom, including flowcharts, graphic organizers, and mathematical patterns. The way that students can use this tool to manipulate shapes makes it useful for meeting plenty of elementary mathematical standards.
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