1. Brandon Decker Cynthia Gobrogge Revere High School, Richfield, OH
Catch Up with SketchUp
Brandon Decker
Cynthia Gobrogge
Revere High School, Richfield, OH

2. Who are we? Brandon Decker—High school science teacher
What technology have I used in the classroom
How it was used and how has it helped?
Cynthia Gobrogge—Library Media Specialist, former HS English Teacher
Teacher/LMS technology collaborations

3. Google Resources
What is SketchUp?
What are Google Docs (Revere Apps)?

4. SketchUp—Getting Started
Download program
Watch and review tutorials
Work within program to familiarize yourself with basic features

5. SketchUp—Download Two Options 1. Download SketchUp (free)
Recommended
Students can also download at home
2. Download SketchUp Pro (“extremely affordable” for students and schools)
License required after free trial period
Revere received E-tech grant for Pro license

6. Google Docs Accounts Tech department set up school domain: Revere Apps
Students activate their accounts
Teacher/LMS demonstrate Google Docs features
Google Docs issues with uploads—main emphasis is collaboration
Use to attach
Domain overcomes outside issues
Freatures—collaboration, online chats, tracks changes, domain only

7. Forensics Project Steps
Downloaded the program
Searched internet for videos
Followed along with videos while working in SketchUp
Used one of the videos to demonstrate features of SketchUp
Students worked along with video, pause and monitor students progress along the way (VIDEO)
Student created SketchUps and collaboration on google docs.

8. Obstacles Encountered
Licensing. Couldn’t access SketchUp Pro.
Working in 3D space can be challenging
Some user issues we couldn’t immediately correct
*Be flexible—Let students know you don’t expect their SketchUp designs to be perfect.
I would write down issues as students encountered them and try to figure out how to remedy these issues on my own and have an answer by the end of the period or the next class meeting

9. Lesson Ideas—SketchUp
Language Arts
Constructing the Globe Theatre
Set construction of scenes for plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, etc.
Arial views of settings for town in To Kill a Mockingbird (fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama)
Social Studies
Constructing digital historical buildings and museums
Recreating any locale from a historical perspective

10. Lesson Ideas—SketchUp
Science
Cells – Prokaryote and eukaryote
Anatomy – Examine organs in 3d
Atoms – Atomic structure of molecules
Math
Geometry- Teaching with 3d shapes
Surface area volume

11. Lesson Ideas—Google Docs
All Subject Areas
Group projects—PPTs, papers, online interaction
Peer editing
Storing in the cloud and gmail—allows students to easily work at school and home
Students can communicate with teacher via or chat

12. Common Core Standards Fulfills several Common Core Standards:
College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
CCR Anchor Standards for Language
Academic and Content Vocabulary
Writing Standards for Literacy in Science

13. Common Core Standards Students Who are College and Career Ready...
use technology and digital media strategically and capably
are familiar with strengths and limitations of various technological tools
can use [tech. tools] best
suited to their
communication goals
Students Who are College and Career Ready
in Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language
They use technology and digital media strategically and capably. Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline. They are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools and mediums and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals (Intro, pg. 7).

14. Common Core Standards: Flexible Communication and Collaboration
Students must learn to:
work together
express and listen carefully to ideas
integrate info from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources
evaluate what they hear
use media and visual displays
strategically to help achieve
communicative purposes
adapt speech to context & task
Key Features of the Standards
Speaking and Listening: Flexible communication and collaboration
Including but not limited to skills necessary for formal presentations, the Speaking and Listening standards require students to develop a range of
broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills. Students must learn to work together, express and listen carefully to ideas, integrate information
from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate what they hear, use media and visual displays strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task (Intro, p. 8).

15. Questions
Questions or Brainstorm for your classroom.

16. Consulted Resources Websites and Video Links
Google Website for Educators
Video Link—Getting Started with Google SketchUp
Lesson Plans
Lesson Ideas
also teacher explains why SketchUp is an effective classroom resource