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Created by Cheryl Phillips
Prince William County Schools https://sites.google.com/site/duckduckgooogle/home

This project was created to assist students with
Google Apps. It’s an engaging project that teaches more than just history and geography.
By integrating the assortment of Google Apps, students get a meaningful and authentic learning experience that will carry over to other disciplines.

● Student will complete several activities using several Google Apps.
● Students will be saving each activity in their
Google Docs
● Each Activity will be represented in the final cumulative project, a Google Site

Grades 5th - High School.
Time Frame:
Should begin in October/November and have a due date after your Spring Break
(April).
Content Areas:
Technology, Geography, Language Arts, Science, Art, Physical Education,
History/Social Studies
Apps used in this project
DRAW

Language Arts
• Read Book – Make Way for
Ducklings
• Have students take notes on the places the ducks visited
• Class discussion – gender roles, Boston, what they liked or disliked about the city…

Language Arts Slide Show
• Create a page or slide that demonstrates the roles of ducks in the family include pictures and some basic information: use
Google Docs with the research tool!
• List 10 fun facts about ducks.
•Include an image with each fact
• Find a YouTube Video of ducks being rescued or helped across the street by a police officer
(and yes, there are a lot!) Insert the YouTube in your page/slide.

After a bit of practice, students found the places the ducks had traveled in
Boston. They used their notes, found the location and pinpointed each location and inserted a information about each place.

We even uploaded our own placemark
!

They were creating their own paths!

Social Studies
Sites slides
● Students will put together a photo story using Google Slides or Sites.
● They are to travel with a rubber duck from September to the end of their
Spring Break taking pictures of interest along the way.
● The project is to include their personal photos as well as Google images.
● Pictures are required to include their rubber duck.
Great site to find tips using these apps: http://gappstips.com/google-apps/

The quacktastic adventure begins! Students were given a rubber duck as a travel companion.

We needed a letter to explain our project and we made business cards for our duck.

if you only need a few cards, using a Google Template is easy and free!
Follow this link to get a variety of templates: https://goo.gl/jEleNZ

To be successful, each students needed:
● Access to Internet
● Students will need a basic concept of a photo editing program, like Pixie 4, Sumopaint.com or Photoshop - you can also do a certian amount of editing and photoshopping with Google Draw!
● Digital camera / phone camera…(if they are doing this at home)
● Google Slides and/or Google Sites
● Google drive to save documents and pictures.

The Process: Students were asked to:
Put together a Google Slide Presentation on your travels.
•Collect pictures using personal pictures and Google Images.
Required Elements
•Students will be required to collect pictures from regions of the United States (or your state) by using Google Images or personal pictures.
•Option 1 – If you are doing a U.S. Project:
•Students must collect at least 2 pictures from 2 states for each region.
•Each picture must represent a different theme of Geography.
•All 5 themes must be represented in the final project.
•Each picture must have a caption explaining the theme and location.
•Personal photos to include a rubber duck will be collected throughout the project.
Option 2 – If you are opting for a state project:
•Students must collect at least 2 pictures from each region of your state.
•Each picture must represent a different theme of Geography and an historical place of ineterest.
•All 5 themes must be represented in the final project.
•Each picture must have a caption explaining the theme and location.
•Personal photos to include a rubber duck will be collected throughout the project.

Now it’s time to look at some pictures and have fun with them
.
It’s time to see some pictures!

Required: Create a postcard from one of the locations you included.This postcard was created by using Google Drawing with research tool.

● Using Google Draw, have students include a rubber duck in a project.
● Students created a Motivational Poster
● Posters can be created either with a rubber duck in the picture or a real duck.

These memes and posters were created with imgflip ( https://imgflip.com
) Google Drawing and Big Huge Labs (free! http://bighugelabs.com/)

In addition to their regional pictures, students were taught how to ‘photoshop’ their ducks into various images. Using this knowledge, they were asked to ‘photoshop’ their duck into a sport picture using Google Draw and
Tech4Learning Pixie for the more complicated images.

In addition to their memes and motivational posters, students were taught how to ‘photoshop’ their ducks into various images. Using this knowledge, they were asked to ‘photoshop’ their duck on a Wheaties
Cereal Box. Google Drawing and LunaPic (free photo editing)

Students created their own Google Tours of their own duck’s travels throughout the school year.

While this was on-going throughout the year, we also were
Duck deep in many other quacktastic activities!
Morning Announcements: Quacker of the
Week – Pod cast or live broadcast of a duck ‘event’. Oral Language, Geography,
Technology

Boston Marathon https://sites.google.com/site/duckduckgooogle/p-e---let-s-getactive
Geo Caching with our Ducks
No Water off a Duck’s Back
Information Management System with cards

PE – To support the wellness initiative, Students ran a Boston Marathon. They put in 26 miles of activity between October and April.

Art – Our fabulous Art Teacher had the students create a 3D replica of a famous painting and the 3D part had to be a paper
Mache rubber duck that was part of the picture.
Keep in mind that a research project can stem from any of these topics, from The
History of Marathons, to Mallard Duck
Migration.

Using GPS with Students
High Tech Hide & Seek!
When the snow finally melted….
To meet the new GPS Sol standard, our students
were taken to task with an emerging GPS-based activity by using the technology tool,
GPS receivers, and , geocaching with rubber ducks.

• Students had a quick lesson on how to use the GPS units. They knew about absolute location from the 5 Themes of Geography.
• Students were placed in groups of 5.
• Each group had 3 GPS units.
• There were 6 hidden duck-caches along our soccer field
• When they found their duck, they had to replace it exactly where they found it.

Name
Daffy
Donald
Clues
Coords
N38  40.853 W 077 
25.158
N38  40.841 W 077 
25.146
N38  40.771 W 077 
25.124
Daisy Mae N38  40.796 W 077 
25.189
Rob
Frodo
N38  40.848 W 077 
25.202
N38  40.879 W 077 
25.142
Clue
Don’t get too lazy and decide to
rest, this one’s easy; it’s your first test!
Walk Up not down, and think of
trees, Look for some dead
branches among the leaves.
Left of the path along the trees,
I’m hidden somewhere above your
knees.
Think yellow and big and you’re on your way, look high, look low, you’ll find Daisy Mae.
End of the day, you will see, where students pour out, with a shout of glee!
No students allowed, beyond the swings, Frodo sits high amongst these things.

No Water off a Duck’s Back
We have all seen pictures and videos of wildlife covered in black, sticky oil, especially after the BP oil spill in the Gulf. To give students a better understanding of Human Environment Interaction, students created their own oil spill (in a pan)then given a bird feather. They took their feather for a swim in their oil spill then set out to clean up their mess using Dawn Dish Detergent.
https://drive.google.com/templates?q=science+project&category=7&sort=hottest
&view=public
Use these Google Templates to guide you through the process

State Cards were created to help students learn to narrow down research on the internet.
Name(s)________________________ Help! I’m Stuck!
Can you find my DUCK?
QUACK! I’m swimming with the swans here in this state since it has the largest breeding population of trumpeter swans in the nation. It also has the largest herd of migratory elk and population of grizzly bears. It’s called “The Treasure State” because of the importance of mining state, but I think it’s because of the wealth of animals in this state. It has more different species of mammals than any other state. Did you know that the first inhabitants of this state were the Plains Indians?
Can you name this state and its capital? What region of the U.S. am I in?

Using a snap shot and images from the all of the activities, students will put together a Google Site.
This is a perfect final evaluation and to have students create and communicate their hard work!

Cheryl Phillips
Instructional Technology Resource Teacher
Prince William County, VA
Chofish@gmail.com
Also Visit: http://www.goingapeforapps.net/ http://www.technologyprojects4kids.com/