SketchUp for Schools is a free online app accessible to all schools through their district or with an internet connection and using the online version “Sketchup Free”.

Educators will learn:

1. How to access SketchUp for Schools(SfS)

2. Access resources on how to use SfS in Google Classroom.

3. Practice using the tools and menus in SfS by making an avatar of themselves that could be used in their other online instruction activities.

4. Save their avatar in a shared class folder in Google Classroom.

5. Explore what other types of projects/activities could be done with SfS.

This workshop will be geared toward middle school teachers but could have application in high school and elementary as well. Chromebooks are the preferred platform, but the courses will run in a Chrome browser on PC or Mac as well.  There is no software to install.

This workshop will provide free 3 STEM clock hours upon completion of the 2-hours online session and off-line completion of creating a sample avatar of participants choosing.