Drawing

Using Google Docs Drawing feature is easy and seems very useful for children.  You can make drawings using shapes and lines and also insert text boxes and word art.  Using this program, you can upload pictures from your computer or from the Internet.  Students could upload a picture of their self even.  In the lesson plan, "Book Buddies,"  the students make a book using Google drawing and a painting program.  This is a great activity for elementary students to learn the sequence of a story and other language art concepts.

When studying a story, students can make a drawing about the story.  They could also make their own story using this program.  Students can work collaboratively in groups to create a drawing with the live editing that Google Docs features.  A teacher can use this program in multiple content areas.  It also has math equation symbols so it could be used for that as well.