Posts Tagged ‘ Google Earth ’

0There are so many great things happening at our school right now that I find I don’t have time to blog about one before I’m deep into another project with another teacher. All that I know is we’re having some fun! Let’s start in Mr. Jessee’s room where I wanted to share a great Google...
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0Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working closely with a couple of our 3rd grade teacher looking at their mapping unit and using Google Earth. I talked about the lessons I was helping with a couple blog posts ago. What has been really great about this project is how I’ve been able...
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0 Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with our 3rd grade teachers on a social studies project to introduce the students to some mapping skills. Of course the USSR no longer exists, yet many atlases in schools and even school encyclopedia talk about the USSR as though you should be able to...
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1Two recent lessons I have been involved in are using Google Earth with 2nd Graders and having 5th graders create audio books for Pre-K students. Google Earth Lesson (2nd Grade): Have students pair up. (I always have kids number 1 and 2, it makes it easy to say “OK, #1 your turn to ……) Students start Google...
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0So many times we use the phrase “Teaching & Learning” but really we need to be asking ourselves: Are we focusing on teaching or learning? This came up in a discussion with Kim earlier today, (BTW….the two of us in a room for longer than 10 minutes is enough deep conversation to keep me going...
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0What is the benefit of technology in the classroom if it’s not to broaden our view of the world? With web 2.0 tools the four walls of our classroom are torn down and a universe of adventure and learning is opened up. I am continuously blow away by Google Earth and the amazing new...
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0So many possibilities. Watch the video, click on the link, and let your educational imagination take off! Check out the Viewfinder web site.
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