8/18/2023 0 Comments Doodle dates![]() Weekend days are marked available if Work Hours is not selected. Darker green indicates days with the most options and lighter green and red indicates the most conflicts. Note: You can scroll through the days and months using the arrows. optional attendees are free, whether conflicted attendees have tentative or busy commitments on their calendar. Factors used to determine the best options include how many attendees are free, how many required vs. Use the links to sort the meeting options.Īvailability: Lists the best options (times when all required meeting participants are free) first. Calendars that are not associated an Microsoft 365 account are not supported. When they’ve finished the other students can guess what the Doodle represents.Note: FindTime uses your Microsoft 365 business account to access your calendar and the calendars of attendees in your organization to determine availability. They design their own Google Doodle to represent the date. Students think of either an important date to them, or an important date to their country. Do the ‘Guess the Doodle’ game mentioned by Svetlana in this post.Again, they use ONLY Google Doodle to research the answers. Give students the research questions about famous UK dates.They can check their answers using the doodles website. Bring up a recent Doodle on the screen, talk about what it represents, etc. Ask students if they remember any particular doodles. Students guess: ‘ When did you get married?’, ‘when was your son born?’ etcĮncourage students to write down their own significant dates, their partners can guess why they are important.īring up the Google Doodle website. Teacher boards a few significant dates from their own life.ġ4 th November 1970 23 rd December 1998 etcĮxplain to students that these are the answers, what are the questions? Or teach them if you haven’t already done so! Give vocab to help them: ‘ when were you born?’, ‘what year?’, ‘I’m older/younger than you’ etcĪfter activity, do some delayed correction on use of ordinal numbers. Students arrange themselves in order of their age. Here are the resources: Google Doodles resources Here’s a full plan: Google Doodles lesson plan Keep reading for a summary of activities ![]() They change the doodle now and again for significant dates, and the Doodles website stores all the old logos they’ve created, allowing you to search through them. Also, a rarity for my lessons, there’s actually a language focus! Ordinal numbers…īy the way, the ‘Google Doodle’ is the Google logo on their web page. It’s designed for elementary/pre-intermediate learners, and from experience the last activity (designing your own Google Doodle) goes down well. I’d also recommend using other features on the Google Culture Institute (where you’ll find Art Project), as I imagine they’d be good for CLIL-based lessons.Īnyhow, just to follow up from Svetlana’s post, here’s a lesson based around Google Doodles. ![]() I’ve posted up a few things before about using Google Art Project and Google Trends, these serve a purpose for sure. I experimented with various Google platforms in the classroom, with mixed results. After a while I realised that I was trying to stop the ocean waves with a sieve, so I embraced the technology at our disposal and started to make lessons around it. I used to fight against technology and hated it when students always tapped away on their smart phones in class. Her comments on Google matched my experience. I read a great post from Svetlana Kandybovich yesterday on using Google games in the classroom. ![]() Home › Lesson Ideas › Using Google Doodles to revise dates
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