The document discusses various Google tools that can be used for easy, engaging, and effective teaching including Google Public Data, Google Cardboard, Google My Maps, Google Newspapers, Google Cultural Institute, and Google Keep. It provides examples of how these tools could be used for activities like exploring reasons for westward expansion in the 1850s and current migration patterns from the Middle East to Europe and the US.

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

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3. don’t be that guy

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

5. • All the Light We
Cannot See
• The Wright Brothers
• The Boys in the Boat
• The Da Vinci Code
• Killing Reagan

6. • Unbroken
• Gone with the Wind
• Schindler’s List
• Selma
• The Imitation Game

7. standards & assessments
have changed!

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

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

12. find some
buddies

14. why the
difference

18. Google
Public Data

22. Google
Cardboard

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

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29. Google
Newspapers

32. Google
Cultural Institute

37. Google
Keep

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

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43. what are you
zinking about?