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Fonts for Google Docs

"Allow a student to create a faux Facebook page for a famous person from history using a Google Drawing! A fun way to introduce research to students."

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing familiar places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data. "

"20 Google Doc Templates for use in Science and Math Classrooms" A nice collection of templates for Google Docs for Math and Science classes.

n November 2007 I began the first of a series of Google presentations gathering together some ideas about the uses of different tools for the classroom. I thought that the easy manner of sharing Google Docs was ideal to collate thoughts, tips and suggestions from teachers and educators all over the world.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

The Official Google Earth Tutorials

The Official Google Earth Help Center

Templates for teachers and students for Google Docs

Awesome collection of templates for Google Docs

ooking for tools to help teach your students and patrons how to use Google more effectively?

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we're inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme "What I Wish for the World."

"Use the Google search box to find exactly what you're looking for, including answers to math problems and the current weather."

Through the great folks in the Google Certified Teachers community I've learned that you can now sort your search results by readability. The readability index is a bit coarse, but it is helpful none-the-less. The index use a simple ranking of "basic," "intermediate," and "advanced." In order to sort by readability you have to open the advanced search tools then select "reading level" from the drop-down menus.

"Google is looking for the brightest, best young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today. "

"Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL."

GREAT ideas for how to use Google Forms!

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. * Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). * Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. * See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. * Save and share Squares with others.

All kinds of templates for your Google Docs - docs, spreadsheets, presentations and forms.

A great training/demo on Google Apps.. goes through each element and how they work.