Chromebooks

There are many ways to integrate Chromebooks into your classroom!  The most important thing is planning.  Just like in any classroom, you need to plan how you will implement them into your classroom before just jumping in!  One great way to implement Chromebooks into your classroom is by implementing Google Classroom into your daily lessons.  There are endless opportunities when you utilize Google Classroom in your daily lessons, that we will look at in another activity.  
Another great way to implement Chromebooks into your lessons, is to incorporate them into your small groups. ​Classroom small groups are an important part of your day.  Students are able to get more one on one time that is needed to help them grasp a full understanding of the concepts that you are teaching.  Your small groups can be either new information or a review of something previously taught.  If it is new information, make sure that there is a way for the students to get answers to any questions they may have while in that small group so they do not form an incorrect understanding of the concept. 
​Below you will see several different ideas with short descriptions of how each small group would work.  Choose 4-5 ideas that work for your classroom and use them to help incorporate the Chromebooks into your classroom.

Small Group Activities

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Digital Citizenship-  Work your way though the activities and videos on this page.  When you have read and watched all of the information, take the quiz at the bottom of the page.

Math

  1. Work in First in Math for 15-20 minutes each day
  2. Practice on IXL for 15 minutes for free each day
  3. Complete a FASTTMATH Lesson
  4. Have students play an interactive math game
  5. Have students play Prodigy a RPG (Role Playing Game) Math Game
  6. Create and label Geometric shapes or other Math related terms using Google Drawing
  7. Conduct a survey and then create a graph to represent their data

Reading/LA

  1. Have students practice story starters with Scholastic Story Starters
  2. Have students do a vocabulary discovery in Google Docs using the 'research' tool
  3. Work on Imagine Learning (shortcut should be installed on chromebooks)
  4. Have students read books on Epic where you can track their reading.
  5. Have students complete a graphic organizer based on a story that they read
  6. Have students do an interactive activity 

Science

  1. Have students create a food web in Google Drawing
  2. Students watch a National Geographic Video and Answer Questions
  3. Play a Magic School Bus Game
  4. Play an Interactive Science Game
  5. Watch a Magic School Bus Video (this is just a youtube channel with several Magic School Bus videos.  You could embed them onto your own site instead of going to youtube)

Social Studies

  1. Create a video using WeVideo
  2. Create Google Drawing Infograph about a Historical Person
  3. Play an Interactive Social Studies Game
  4. Create a MyMap with specific locations of events or battles and give information about them
  5. Use an interactive map to learn where different land forms are located
  6. Play a game to learn about the United States​