Forward Learning Shared Resources: November 2016

How it works

This site is a place for LVUSD teachers to share resources related to our Forward Learning initiative. To share a lesson plan you can use the lesson plan template by clicking on this link. The document will open in your Google Drive. This is a view only template so you will need to make a copy by going to File - Make a Copy. Rename your copy the name of your lesson and include your name as well. Once you have completed your lesson you can copy and paste it onto our blog! Make sure you use labels/tags when you post so that your lesson is searchable. Some examples of labels that should be used are: the grade level, content area and topic.

If you have a lesson using one of the other templates that we have worked with you can share directly to the blog by either copying and pasting your lesson into the blog or by giving a brief description of your lesson and attaching a link to your lesson. If you are attaching a link to a Google Doc make sure you have shared your document with anyone in LVUSD to View Only. Here is a video tutorial that shows how to share a doc with LVUSD view only.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Google Maps to Show Learning

This lesson came from Sandra Ritvo, a 3rd grade teacher at White Oak, but it is adaptable for any grade.

Each of Sandra's students will be using a personalized Google My Map all year long. They will be adding placemarks (pins) to their maps for all the locations they learn about. These could include places in the news that they discuss, locations mentioned in social studies reading, settings from books, novels, and poems, and places from the students' own writing. Each pin will be customized with a description written by the student and an image or images of the location or what happened there.

The getting started doc is available here for you to copy and modify for your own use:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVrMKHNXe40bK3Q2En3HgjSq6mSQh35kNQ23OWP3oYU/edit?usp=sharing