Nations Classroom Blog

“Back to School” is just around the corner - and we at NationsClassroom are teachers’ biggest fans.  And we’re not alone. The historic attractions on our tours love supporting teachers; in fact, most of the attractions offer virtual Classroom Resources designed to enhance learning without having to leave the classroom.  We’ve compiled a list of our favorite “Educator Resources” from some of NationsClassroom’s most popular historical east coast destinations.

So even if a school trip isn’t in your immediate future this year, we encourage you to take a look at these resources designed to make learning history come to life in the classroom. 

Wrapping up this series is one final Google App that helps us power our trip - Google Forms. Forms is a data collector. Its uses are unlimited! If you want to collect, well, ANYthing, a Google Form can do this for you.

Forms itself is simple to start and use - as simple as a collection of names, phone numbers, and email addresses, but as complex as a medical questionnaire where your next question depends on your previous answer - and everything in between. Let me give you some examples.

I highlighted the benefits of Google Sites, Sheets, the Drive app, and Calendar in previous posts. Next up in the Google Blog Series is how Google Docs makes planning your school trip much easier.

Here’s what we’ve covered so far in our Google Blog Series: Google can help in countless ways when it comes to planning a trip.  If you missed my previous blogs, I discussed the benefits of using Google Sites as a warehouse for trip documents and Google Sheets as a powerhouse for sending personal emails in bulk.  The next integral pieces we will cover in this article are accessing Google Drive on your Goggle App and using Google Calendar.

Google Sheets and formMule make it possible for educational trip leaders to improve the efficiency of our email communication by sending personalized emails in bulk. I'll explain more in this article, which is the second in a six-part series about how to use Google applications to help make your student trip planning and execution easier.