Google in Education Lesson Plan Search

While I was looking around the Google education website I came across this search engine of lessons using Google tools.  You can search the lessons available and make them fit with your curriculum.  Two ideas I saw that I would like to use are using Google calendar as a timeline project for Geologic Time and using spreadsheets as a introduction to data collection for the scientific method.












Each lesson has a grade or age range (which I think most of the younger grade level lessons can be used for middle and maybe high school depending on concept) and is written out with an Overview, Materials List, Instructions, Related Links, Video Tutorials, Evaluation and Standards.  They are written out very well with a lot of information.  I really like the tutorials and related links and think they would be very helpful for students.  Check out these lesson examples.

Science: Lesson Plan: Introduction to Scientific Method - Marble Stacking Using Google Spreadsheets

Language Arts: Lesson Plan: Historical Novel

Social Studies: Lesson Plan: The Great Immigration Debate

Math: Lesson Plan: Slope and Y-Intercept

Some of the lesson plans on the site also include Google Earth lesson plans.  Since I teach 6th grade science, I am really excited about the plate tectonics and food chain lesson plans!

I encourage you to go to the lesson plan search engine in the link at the top and click on a subject (I wouldn't narrow the search much more than that since the age and grade ranges are flexible). Look at all of the available lessons and you might find something you can use with the Chromebooks.

Happy Browsing!
Jen