Happy Monday!

After the Super Bowl, the students in my class often asked questions like "How much did that person/group get paid for the halftime show? How much money does it cost to have a Super Bowl Ad? Who is the oldest guy on the field? How much does it cost to go watch the Superbowl?" Often I would ask them to hold on to their questions and we would Google it and find out (Except the older player. Let's face it often more times than not it was Tom Brady.) We would then go about our lesson for the day. I wish that I would have dived deeper into these questions with my kids because this was something they usually truly wanted to know. Discovery Education has some great resources that I wish I would have had to help with these questions. They offer "Curriculum Connectors". Discovery states that "These exploratory resources provide beginner and intermediate-level activity ideas tied to a specific theme, for students in Grades 6–12. Discover real-world data sets that you can integrate into your curriculum" Real-World Data sets! Not Mr. Winter fumbling around doing a Google search for "Snoop Dogg + halftime show" There is a whole activity where students can look into consumer habits around National Championship games. This is a great activity for students to be able to manipulate and study data sets. This would mean that the students in my class would be interpreting and manipulating data and coming to their own conclusions. Below is a link to these Data activities. These are meant for students in grades 6-12

Christine Pinto, author of "Google for Littles", has some great free Google templates that teachers can copy and use. Check them out below!

There are some great updates in Google for Education for the month of February. The video below explains the new offerings. Here are the links that you may need to explore more!

Applied Digital Skills: Celebrate Black History, Culture & Identity

Translated Google Meets

The Google for Education Teaching Center is a resource that many of us have used to go through the Google Educator Certification. When we were logging into it the other day during Google Class I noticed that they now have a tab called "product guide" Product Guide offers short tutorials on all of the products that we have access to in Google Workspace for Education. Please let me know if you have any questions about anything Google! You can E-mail me at clint.winter@elbert.k12.ga.us

Joe Dawson - Elbert County Elementary School

Matt Johnson - Elbert County Middle School

Sherri Rampey -Elbert County Primary School

Hector Santiago - Elbert County Comprehensive High School

Clint Winter - Instructional Technology Coordinator Elbert County School District

Website: elbert.k12.ga.us
Phone: 706.213.4000
Twitter: @elbertcoschools