How to Make an Interactive Drag & Drop Worksheet (sorting activity)

hey guys in this video I'm going to show you how to make an interactive worksheet and this one will make a sorting activity so I am going to clean up my workspace I'm gonna get rid of these themes if you have your speaker notes showing at the bottom you can get rid of them by if they're there you just get rid of them by clicking view and then unclick show speaker notes I want a blank slide so I'm gonna right-click on my slide on the left select apply layout and blank and remember right-click on the trackpad as two fingers at the same time on the trackpad so what I'm making now is the worksheet itself the part that you would normally photocopy and hand out to the students noting that I want to drag around or move so let me insert a text box at the top oh you know what before I do that if you want your worksheet to be this size you can leave it like this if you want it to look like a traditional worksheet you can go to file and then page setup custom eight-and-a-half by eleven so it's up to you whatever works best for your activity so I'm gonna make a sorting activity I want to be able to see a little bit better so I'm gonna go to view zoom 100% and I'm gonna insert a text box for name and directions at the top so I'm going to select a font that I like for my fonts list and I'm going to select name and directions drag and drop the pictures into the correct category and obviously you can elaborate on this as much as you want and then you just resize your text box so it fits right up there on the screen I'm gonna make a sorting activity where there will be some pictures at the top and then at the bottom there'll be a space for the students to to drag and drop those into so I'm actually going to zoom back out to fit because I want to see the whole screen again and I need to make a space on the bottom for them to sort into so let me insert a shape I particularly like this rectangle with the rounded corners and then I'm just gonna insert this I like to be able to see the whole screens that I know that um it's fitting in there the way I wanted to and then I want to do a couple of things one is it's kind of like gray in its background that must be the last color I used so I'm gonna select the bucket at the top and then choose transparent and I also want to make those borders nice and thick so I'm gonna pick a border weight and three points okay so this looks great so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna duplicate it I'm gonna press command D or ctrl D and then just drag it right next to the other one and then just arrange them how I want them to look okay scoot it over a little bit great those look perfect so now I'm gonna put in a text box again and I can either start a new text box or what I can do is I can just get rid of that text box I'm going to command Z to get rid of it command or control Z undoes whatever you last did and actually I'm going to duplicate this text box I'm gonna duplicate it and drag the new one down here we go drag it down because now it'll have the font that I like so I don't have to redo the font so you need to do a new one and pick the font or you can do a duplicate living things and I'm going to highlight that I'm gonna bold it so you can either select that at the top or you can command B or kin or control B I also want to press format align Center because I want it centered in my text box and I actually want to underline that as well so again you can use the underline at the top or command U or control u so that looks good so I'm just going to size this up a little bit and now I'm going to duplicate this again command D or control D and I'm gonna move it over to this one and make this nonliving things okay so I want to make sure these are lined up this one looks a little lower and you can play around with that get it where you like it okay that looks great so really that's it for the worksheet as far as the part that would be photocopied because now I just need to put in the pictures the students are going to drag down here into the appropriate categories so I'm going to title my presentation living things background and I got a press file download PNG image now I'm going to start a new presentation file [Music] new presentation and in my new one if I in my worksheet I changed the size so I need to do that again go to file page setup custom make sure everything is the same size eight and a half by eleven again apply and then again I want a blank slide so I can either do the same thing and do the apply layout thing or you can just delete these text boxes either way I just clicked on them and then press Delete and so now what I want to do is I'm gonna go to insert oh actually no I'm not I'm gonna go to background sorry change background right here on the top banner and choose image I'm gonna upload and for me it's in downloads on my computer and done and the reason that I wanted as a background is because now students can't move these at all if I try and pick these up and move them they can't if I had done it as insert image they'd be able to so let me get rid of themes on the side and I'm gonna zoom in again so let's view zoom a hundred percent there's a couple things I want to do here I want to insert a text box for the name so students can type their name I'm gonna just put that text box in here and I also want to put in some pictures so let me insert image search the web and put an octopus transparent and now you can drag this guy over here and he obviously needs to be resized seuss drag it around to resize it okay we're getting there to the diagonal to get both at the same time okay so that looks good now how about an umbrella that's definitely a nonliving thing [Music] okay and you can see you can see it right over the slide because it's a transparent image and again I'm going to drag it from the corner the diagonal corner to make it to do both at the same time okay this looks good and you can do as many images as you like so you get the idea now students will be able to when the students receive a copy of this worksheet what they'll be able to do is drag the items let's go back to zoom fit they can drag the items to the appropriate category so that looks great so that's the activity so this is really easy to do with sorting activities so now we just need to assign it in classroom now before you assign it in classroom make sure that it's exactly how you want it because assignee and classroom is like making a photocopy so let me just flip over to my classroom oops before I flip over to classroom I've got to name my presentation so living things versus non living things sorting activity okay now that we've got a good name for it now let's flip over to classroom okay so now we're in classroom so let's go over to class work create assignment so title your assignment whatever you like and add it to a topic however you want it to be organized in your classroom give whatever instructions you like and now let's click Add Google Drive and it should be right here in my recent since I just made it and there it is and now I'm gonna choose make a copy for each student and remember this is just like a photocopy so make sure it's exactly how you want it before you send it out press assign and that's it your students have their sorting activity where they can't change the worksheet itself they can only drag around the images that you want them to have fun with your worksheets you [Music]

Channel: EZ EdTech!

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Keywords: #interactiveworksheet, #GoogleSlides, #teacher, #educator, #distancelearning, #remoteinstruction, #draganddrop, #elementaryed

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Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020