Google Docs-Science

Google Docs is a great resource for both students and teachers.  Students can use Google Docs to type all of their assignments.  Google Docs could be used for journaling, writing papers, or anything that needs a word processor. This is a really easy tool to use.  It has the same features as any word processor program and it is free! Teachers can use it to type up lesson plans, make worksheets, make flyers, produce brochures, and many more ideas.  The great thing with Google Docs is that it can be a great collaboration tool.  Students can be working on a group paper at the same time on different computers. I love this feature.  It is nice to know that I can be working on the same paper as someone else and see the changes that they are making as they are making them.  It makes things go so much faster.  It is much better than having to email a paper back and forth trying to collaborate and work on a project.  Google makes it really easy to share.

I have used Google to make a sample worksheet for a science project to have the students do in the classroom. This will fulfill the following second grade standards:

Utah Core Standard

Standard 1 

The Processes of Science, Communication of Science, and the Nature of Science. Students will be able to apply scientific processes, communicate scientific ideas effectively, and understand the nature of science.

Objective 1 

Generating Evidence: Using the processes of scientific investigation (i.e. framing questions, designing investigations, conducting investigations, collecting data, drawing conclusions)

1. Framing questions: Observe using senses, create a hypothesis, and focus a question that can lead to an investigation. 
2. Designing investigations: Consider reasons that support ideas, identify ways to gather information that could test ideas, design fair tests, share designs with peers for input and refinement. 
3. Conducting investigations: Observe, manipulate, measure, describe. 
4. Collecting data: Deciding what data to collect and how to organize, record, and manipulate the data. 
5. Drawing conclusions: Analyzing data, making conclusions connected to the data or the evidence gathered, identifying limitations or conclusions, identifying future questions to investigate.

EdTech Standard

Standard 1 

Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively. (1)

ISTE Standard
Empowered Learner
I use technology to set goals, work toward achieving them and demonstrate my learning