Using Google Draw

I have found myself using Google Draw a lot in my classroom lately. Below are a few examples of ways that I have found it useful:


1. Creating student sheets for math
Ordinarily, it is quite difficult to get student sheets formatted the way you want in math. Google Draw allows you to freely move objects around, which is ideal for math! I always just modify the page size to custom and then input 8.5 X 11 so that it prints on a standard page. 

2. Creating Badges

With my grade sixes, I have tried to take a more gamified approach to math this year, using badges to notify students when they have "levelled up", beat a boss level problem, or are demonstrating mathematical thinking and vocabulary. I make all of my badges in Google Draw, and then I also use classbadges.com to award them to students. They find it extremely motivating! I also sometimes make badges for my first graders to send home in their agendas. Below are two badge examples. 

In teaching grade one, I often create sheets to laminate as parts of my centres. I create the individual sheets using Google Draw. Once I have them all finished, I download them as PDFs, and use a chrome app called PDFmergy to put them all together into one PDF document to share with colleagues. Below is an example.