Cybersmart @ Secondary 

Smart Learner: Google Draw

Designed for Yr 9 Science The Life of Taiao.  This lesson supports the teaching of food chains and understanding ecosystems

What's included

• Google Draw template and examples for creating science posters

• Supporting vocab

• Blog post provocation 

Smart Surfing | Smart Media 

This lesson is designed to guide students with a research task through to creating a poster about Food Webs.  

What's included

• Collaborative writing task

• Context specific Smart Surfing exercise 

• Canva How To

• Blog and vocab support 

Smart Learner, Surfing & Relationships

Predators impact on ecosystems  

What's included

• Multi-modal text set 

• Context specific Smart Surfing exercise 

• Google Draw template

• Blog and vocab support 

Smart Learner: Google Docs 101

This lesson helps students structure and format written work effectively using Google Docs

What's included

• Intro to Google Docs, Formatting headings and styles, Table of Contents, file naming

• Reading Activities (2)

• Plot summary, themes, character analysis

Smart Learner: Canva

This lesson shows students how to use visual design in Canva to interpret key ideas, themes, and perspectives from a novel.

What's included

• Brainstorm 

• Intro to Canva templates i.e. scrapbook, infographic, or travel journal.

Smart Learner: Photofunia

Supports students to develop creative writing ideas by designing an original image to inspire and strengthen their creative writing.  

What's included

• Google Draw Activity

• Creative Writing Suggestions

• Photofunia for visual image effects 

Smart Media

Year 10 Enterprise Studies class.  Students create their own logo for a business idea.    

Students will learn how to:

• Create a logo using Google Draw and/or Canva

• Understand different types of font and  resizing 

• Create a design board ready for critiquing 

Smart Learner:

This lesson teaches students how to use Venn diagrams to organise ideas and explain differences and similarities in social concepts.

What's included

• Venn Diagram template

Smart Learner:

Students will learn how to use Google Keep to create and share effective class notes.  Keep notes easily integrate into Google Docs and other Google Workspace tools.

What's included

• Checklists

• Labels

• Customising, images 

• Collaborating

Smart Relationships, Learner:

This lesson is to reinforce learning about measurement by putting it into a real-world complex (designing a school playground)

Students will use a Gemini Canvas app to design their playground and complete a reflection activity, before they share their learning with their teacher and with a wider audience via Edublogs

What's included

• Consider the needs of you and other students; Playground Designer; 

• Google Form to submit to teacher

• Gemini Canvas App HTML

Smart Footprint:

This lesson is an introduction to Scratch.  Students will learn how to write a program using block code.  

What's included

• Parsons Problems

• Scratch template

• Understanding age restrictions for online use

Smart Learner:

Designed for a junior statistics class, this resource supports students with the PPDAC Cycle using Google Forms and Google Sheets

What's included

• How to create a Google Form

• Using Google Sheets to inform

• Create a diagram chart in Google Sheets