Ways My LS 3-5 ICT Students Use Google Drawing

There are so many ways to use Google Drawing, a personal fave among the Google Apps for Education.  I am always looking for tutorials and ideas for my students, so if you have some to share, please send them my way.  I have set up a G+ community for my colleagues where I want to share All Things Google.  In this community, I share updates, tutorials, how-to use the apps in classrooms and so much more. Let me share some of the ways my students use Google Drawing...

My 5th grade students have a wonderful program that helps a less fortunate organization.  They make products to sell to our community and the proceeds go to the organization they have partnered up with.  In line with this, they create their own logos to showcase their products. 

Apart from the logos above, my 5th graders also create brochures that gives further details of their products.  They create 3 panels in Google Drawings to highlight materials/ingredients, steps to create their products, the benefits of buying what they sell and other important details about the event.  Some create 2 page brochures that we fold into a pamphlet. 

My 4th grade students study The Body System in their Science classes.  In line with this, I have them draw parts of the body system or an entire system itself.  They use shapes, lines and free hand.

Our school is a Christian School that focuses on a theme for the school year.  This year our Chapel Theme is Appreciate Our Diversity and Interdependence.  My grades 3-5 students discuss this and brainstorm ideas of how we can best interpret this theme through visuals.  I allow them to insert images but I also require them to draw most of it on Google Drawing.

When some of my students finish their ICT projects, I challenge them to create how-to's/flowcharts.  I laminate some of them and display it around the classroom for other students who are at the beginner level.  I find that students learn best from each other.

My colleagues sometimes ask me to let their students do their projects in digital form.  They give me a background of what they want and I suggest the app and how we can digitize it.  Here's an example of how 3rd grade students wrap up their book study using Google Drawings. They can clearly illustrate story elements like Cause and Effect, Summaries, Sequence of Events as illustrated below. 

These are just some ways you may have your students do in Google Drawings. I will continue to update this as my students come up with more projects using this Google App for Education.