This document highlights several underappreciated Google tools that can be used for easy, engaging, and effective social studies instruction, including Google Public Data, Google Cardboard, Google Street View, Google My Maps, Google Newspapers, and Google Keep. It encourages developing student questions and inquiries, applying disciplinary concepts and tools, evaluating sources and using evidence, and communicating conclusions.

1. Under-appreciated
Google Tools
Easy, Engaging, Effective

2. goo.gl/w1s5uP
sign up. win a prize!

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Glenn Wiebe

4. don’t be that guy

5. “Kids don’t
hate history.
They hate
the way we
teach it.”

6. standards & assessments
have changed!

7. “Social Studies content is the
vehicle for demonstrating
mastery, not the destination.”
Don Gifford

9. • develop questions & plan
inquiries
• apply disciplinary concepts &
tools
• evaluate sources & use evidence
• communicate conclusions & take
informed action

11. find some
buddies

13. why the
difference

17. Google
Public Data

21. Google
Cardboard

23. Google
StreetView
Discovery
VR

24. what might this look
like?

25. Why did families move
west in the 1850s

26. Why are families moving
from the Mideast to
Europe & the US?

27. Google
My Maps

28. goo.gl/iFJqeg

29. Google
Newspapers

32. Google
Cultural Institute

37. Google
Keep

38. share notes
sort by colors / labels
create drawings (Android)
leave audio notes (mobile)
Copy to Google Docs
photo transcripts

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@glennw98
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socialstudiescentral.com
Glenn Wiebe

43. what are you
zinking about?