Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 17h

Shapegrams are a wicked way to get students designing, thinking, and persevering! #EduSky

Browse Lessons and Zippers and you'll find several that could haunt your lesson plans! Super low prep: just send students a link to make a copy in Google Slides!

shapegrams.com/lessons

3

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 22h

You’ve got nothing to fear... just killer digital art lessons, perfect for Halloween. #EduSky #EdTech #GoogleSlides

Read the Shapegrams Update:
birdsend.page/7854/sAb54oV...

Halloween Shapegrams + Shapes Sheet

birdsend.page

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 1d

For teachers wanting a taste of Shapegrams, we have free lessons available. Try them out with your class and see the magic in action! #EdTech #EduSky #GoogleEdu

Free Shapegrams 👉 shapegrams.com/free

Free

Get started free Shapegrams lessons, Zippers, and posters!

shapegrams.com

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 1d

That about sums up what's on students' minds lately. 😆

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 3d

October really is a GOURD month for drawing with shapes. 🎃 We’ve got some Shapegrams that are faBOOlous any time of year, but especially in October! #EduSky #EdTech

October: Spooky, Fall & Halloween Digital Activities

October really is a GOURD month for drawing with shapes. We've got four Shapegrams that are faBOOlous any time of year, especially in October.

shapegrams.com

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 4d

Google Slides has 138 preset shapes and 7 different line tools!

Use the Shapes Sheet PDF as a way for students to predict "witch" shapes are used to draw the picture before they get going with a Shapegram. 🔮🧙

Shapes Sheet

Get students thinking before they draw by having them predict the shapes in a Shapegram. They can mark their guesses on a printable PDF Shapes Sheet.

shapegrams.com

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 7d

Download the Shapes Sheet PDF and print. Use it to get students thinking before they get started on a Shapegram. #EduSky #EdTech

shapegrams.com/shapes-sheet/

Shapes Sheet

Get students thinking before they draw by having them predict the shapes in a Shapegram. They can mark their guesses on a printable PDF Shapes Sheet.

shapegrams.com

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 14d

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, deer! These are are coming along really whale! 🤩

1 1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 20d

Funny Friday!

No yolk... This egg-cellent comic was drawn with shapes in Google Slides!

Get the Barn Shapegrams template: shapegrams.com/barn

Level = Growing Green
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

Comic of Tony looking at an egg on apex of a barn’s roof. He says, “A rooster lays an egg on a barn roof. Which way does it roll?” “Roosters don’t lay eggs. Hens do!”

Shapes outlined and shaded for the comic of Tony looking at an egg on apex of a barn’s roof.

2

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 20d

The picture in the Ice Cream Cone Lesson is made with 35 shapes. #EduSky

Duplicating shapes saves a whole lot of time and keeps the sizes consistent.

🆓→ shapegrams.com/icecream

1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 20d

The picture in the Ice Cream Cone Lesson is made with 35 shapes. #EduSky

Duplicating shapes saves a whole lot of time and keeps the sizes consistent.

🆓→ shapegrams.com/icecream

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 21d

Hay there! 🧑🌾 We’ve got a Shapegrams digital art challenge for our members. Go hog wild recreating the red barn using shapes in Google Slides or Google Drawings.

Level = Growing Green
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

shapegrams.com/barn

Barn

⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

shapegrams.com

1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 24d

Kandi posted something very sweet about Shapegrams. Our digital art lessons and challenges are great for libraries, maker spaces, and classrooms!

#TLchat #futurereadylibs #STEAM #makered #EduSky

Shapegrams has been my favorite lesson to include in the library this year! The kids are challenged and having fun while learning some much needed skills!

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 25d

The typical life span of a sperm whale is 70 years, but it won’t take you that long to draw one with shapes.

Members can make a copy of the Whale Zipper template in Google Slides: shapegrams.com/whale

Level = Growing Green
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

Whale

⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

shapegrams.com

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 27d

Funny Friday! Tony is in a pickle! 🥒 #EduSky

Which comic is the more DILL-ightful?! Open this Google Form to read the comics and vote on your favorite pun.

Teachers, feel free to share this form with your students.

forms.gle/PmJKA2bNiaUE...

Pick a Pickle Comic

Tony is in a pickle! Which comic has the best pickle joke?

forms.gle

1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 27d

It might seem jarring to use 35 shapes to draw a picture. But the pickle can be made by grouping and duplicating lots of block arcs and circles.

Get the Dill Pickle template in Google Slides: shapegrams.com/pickle

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 28d

Teachers can RELISH that when students copy the Pickle Zipper template, they get everything they need in one file, including animations and space to draw their own pickle. #EduSky #GoogleSlides

shapegrams.com/pickle

Annotated screenshot of the Pickle Zipper in Google Slides showing 4 animated GIFs and space to draw a pickle

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · 29d

We've got 3 digital art challenges that are fabulous for fall.

Barn ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️
shapegrams.com/barn

Sunflower ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️
shapegrams.com/sunflower

Maple Leaf ⬜️⬜️🟪⬜️⬜️
shapegrams.com/leaf

Digital drawings of a barn, maple leaf, and sunflower

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Backpack Shapegram introduces learners to the small and mighty adjustment handle. Tony shows how sliding the little yellow diamond changes a shape's feature. #EdTech

shapegrams.com/backpack

Level = Beginning Blue
🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️

Photo of Tony looking at a digital drawing of a blue and yellow backpack

1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 14

Your students can be dill-ustrators! Give them the Pickle Shapegram, which is a Google Slides doc with animated instructions.

shapegrams.com/pickle

Level = Growing Green
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 13

If you ask a teacher who is a Shapegrams member, they’ll tell you that membership is a really great DILL. $35/yr gets you access to all 120+ Shapegrams for your students and dozens of PDF posters.

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 12

Funny Friday!

Someone told me that whales could squirt ink, then I realized they were just squidding. 🐋🦑🫟

PS: Draw a whale using shapes in Google Slides: shapegrams.com/whale

Comic of a whale and Tony under water having a conversations. Whale: What kind of hair does the ocean have? Tony: What kind? Whale: Wavy! Tony: I whale-y love your sense of humor!

1

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 12

This new Shapegram is dill-icous! GIFs show how to draw a rounded arc, which is the main shape of the pickle and its dimples. #EdTech

shapegrams.com/pickle

Level = Growing Green
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️

Shapegrams @shapegrams.bsky.social · Sep 11

This latest Shapegrams update is DILL-icous! Read about the newest Zipper digital art challenge, see which Shapegrams and fonts are awesome for autumn, and get the scoop on the Shapegrams Posters for Digital Fun (PDF).

birdsend.page/7854/BnaT5mX...

🥒 New Dill-ightful Shapegram → Dill Pickle Zipper

birdsend.page

2