Additional Timers for Classroom Use

Not everyone uses Google Slides in their classroom, so here are a few additional timers that you can bookmark and use whenever you need in your classroom.


Tomato Timer: Gives you a 5, 10 and 25 minute timer. 

Google Timer: Search "timer" in Google. Click on the time and type in the time you want.

Time Management - Embed a Timer in Google Slides

If you have ever used Google Slides to share information with students, you know there are always times that you have students turn to each other to talk and explain/discuss sections of the lesson. Here is a simple way to add a timer to a Google Slide so that you and your students know how much more time they have to discuss the topic/question at hand. 

Written directions In Google Slides, go to Insert > Video. In the search, type the length of the timer you want. For example 4 minute timer. Luckily, there are tons of timer movies already in Youtube to pick from. Resize the video and place it in the corner of your slide. When you are in presentation mode, simply click the timer to start it. or 

Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcoAkonNMw

Write about Jack-O-Lanterns using Google Slides

It's that time of year when pumpkins can inspire our stories with lots of details and spooky descriptions. Eric Curts from the blog Control Alt Achieve has a great Google Slides Template to use with students to prompt their writing. Have students spend 5-10 minutes creating their pumpkin and the larger chunk of time writing a story with lots of details. 

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Stop Motion - Helping to see Processes and Progression

Stop animation is ideal for helping students learn about concepts that involve processes and progressions — anything that benefits from including an element of movement to explain how it works. (Try ClapMotion or Stop Motion Animator) For example, they can draw illustrations or use toys, Legos, manipulatives or household objects, such as cotton balls, to represent abstract concepts, like molecules or equations. Stop animation is also remarkably versatile. You can use it for just about every subject. Here are a few ideas to spark your imagination: 

Science: process of erosion, life cycles, food webs, collecting energy, moon phases, fossilization, planet rotations, and recessive and dominant gene inheritance. 

Math: concepts that involve progression. place value, fractions, counting, patterns, addition, subtraction and fact families. 

Social studies: re-enact events, historical figure’s life, depict timelines 
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ClapMotion
Arrange your objects, pictures or whatever you have and simply clap your hands to take a photo. Move them around and clap again and in no time you’ll have your own animation!






Stop Motion Animator

A simple tool for creating stop motion animation sequences using a webcam. Animation sequences can be saved to a video file in the widely-supported webm format. Previously-saved videos can be loaded back in and added to.