Happy Cyber Week! 

In honor of the cyber week, I wanted to pass along another freebie to my website followers! Today I offering a lesson plan template that is FULLY EDITABLE in Google Docs! Click the image above to receive a free copy of the template.

You can click HERE to see an example of one of my lesson plans that I have created using this exact template. I hope that you enjoy this freebie and find it very useful!

Enjoy!
-Hayley 

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Now that Google Classroom has made its way into classrooms all over the world, students and teachers alike are learning the pros and cons to online classroom environments. As an experienced teacher, I have learned that sometimes the hardest barrier to overcome with ANY online platform is a very simple one: having students remember their login credentials. This is especially true for elementary and middle school students, but it does also happen fairly often in the high school environment, particularly at the beginning of the year. 

Not only am I a teacher at my school, but I am also the Google Admin for all grades 6 - 12. This means that I am the go-to person for ALL password resets for ALL students, and ALL teachers... but teachers never forget their passwords, right?! Lol! I knew that I had to find a way to hold the students responsible for remembering their password... and below you can find the steps to see just how I accomplished that.

Steps to (hopefully) never having to reset Google Passwords ever again:

1. Request permission from students and parents to hold an electronic copy of their password for their school issued Google Account (the account is not for personal use). Most districts have school issued Google accounts, so most parents and students are totally okay with this because the school has full control over the account regardless.  
2. Make an assignment in Google Classroom with the login card found below. 

• Make sure to make each student their own editable copy.

3. Ask students to fill in the card with the required credentials. 
4. Ask the students to click turn in, and to then print a copy of their Google Login Card. 

• I highly recommend printing these on a bright neon colored paper. I personally used these cheap neon orange sheets that I purchased from Amazon this year. It is a pack of 500 sheets, which comes out to about $.02 cents per sheet! This makes the login paper MUCH EASIER for the kiddos to find in their forever messy binders!

5. Assign a small amount of daily points for the first several weeks of school requiring the students to bring the login card to class each day. 

• For students that forget to bring the login card, the teacher automatically has their very own copy stored in their Google Drive account! 

Wa-lah! Magic! This little trick has made my teaching life SO MUCH EASIER, and I hope that it does yours as well.

Please feel free to make a copy for YOUR CLASSROOM ONLY. Please direct other teachers to this post to make their own copy for their class. 
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Click HERE to make your own editable copy. 

Read more about my love for Google Classroom. ​

I chose to use my Cricut to make personalized cups for all of our front office workers and all of our admin. My school is a middle/high school {6-12}, so I had a total of NINE people to make end of year gifts for. I did not want to be a cheap-o, but I also had to be economical. See the pic below to see how they turned out!

Steps:

• I simply added the Cricut adhesive to the tumblers and glasses
• Next, I dropped some Twix and M&M's inside the cups
• Finally, I attached these adorable Gift Tags around the neck of the cups with some twine!

Supplies:

• Glass Mugs and/or Plastic Tumblers {personal preference}
  • I got my Tumblers at Wal-Mart and the glasses were an unopened wedding gift!
• Twine
  • You can get these from any craft store (mine came from Hobby Lobby)
• Cardstock
• Printable Gift Tags
• Cricut Explore Air 2 + Black Outdoor Adhesive Vinyl 
  • If you don't have a die-cut machine, I have the mugs listed in my ETSY store.
  • I am also happy to create and ship just the adhesive names to you as well to cut down on your shipping cost!