I teach kindergarten so I am always looking for ways to include technology in my classroom, but I look for ways that kindergartner can be somewhat independent with the activities. I played with Google earth and some ideas that I have for putting this to use in my classroom is for our unit on measurement. We use many different tools in the classroom to measure items, distances etc. It would be fun to also have the children use google earth to measure distances from our school to other areas around our community or in other states. This would be a lot of fun for them! When we study the story of thanksgiving, we could use google earth to find Plymouth Rock as well as England, this would be a great lesson for the kindergartners to see how far they traveled across the sea to get to America. As I am writing this, I am thinking of many ways that I could use this this year... however I only have 3 computers in our classroom, that is always the problem!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Geospatial Literacy
I am a Social Studies teacher who is so grateful for the technology out there for my students. Geospatial literacy has challenged my students, but at the same time has kept them intrigued. They love to look at various maps and see the world in new ways.
In my World History class this year, I am going to have my students use Google Earth during our WWII unit. I want them to compare Germany, France, and Japan during WWII versus what the countries look like today. I want students to see the places where battles once took place and how the country has developed from the damages. They can track the war as well.
For Sociology, I teach a unit on crime. I really like the National Atlas since it allows you to create maps for various crimes. I am going to have my students look up crimes across the nation then have them synthesize and analyze why (more or less) crimes take place in certain areas.
There are so many great tools out there for Social Studies, I just wish I had more access to technology in my classroom. As a goal, I would really like my students to be using Google Earth or some type of applied maps at least once a week!
Brooke
In my World History class this year, I am going to have my students use Google Earth during our WWII unit. I want them to compare Germany, France, and Japan during WWII versus what the countries look like today. I want students to see the places where battles once took place and how the country has developed from the damages. They can track the war as well.
For Sociology, I teach a unit on crime. I really like the National Atlas since it allows you to create maps for various crimes. I am going to have my students look up crimes across the nation then have them synthesize and analyze why (more or less) crimes take place in certain areas.
There are so many great tools out there for Social Studies, I just wish I had more access to technology in my classroom. As a goal, I would really like my students to be using Google Earth or some type of applied maps at least once a week!
Brooke
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