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Google Earth in the classroom

Everywhere I look at the moment I seem to be seeing amazing examples and ideas of how to use Google Earth. GE for me in the past has been more of a novelty….finding my house and friends houses, but after seeing it used by Jeff Utecht with Kimbra Power’s grade 5 students discussing migration in 4 easy lessons and students at Shanghai American School plotting their own migration path I am now totally hooked! These students plotted their own maps in class placing markers on where they have lived, then Jeff combined all the maps into one. Amazing seeing the results. After a quick search, I found some amazing resources….interestingly though I thought I would have found more on the Google Earth Education page, but no GELessons.com is a fantastic site that has great resources, lesson plans, and nifty tricks. I plan to start the year with grade 5 students and Google Earth and getting the tech savvy students up to speed and spending the rest of the year incorporating GE into projects and work…letting the students decide if it could work for them in a project or two. Learning to fly and whiz around your home city showing the rest of the class some major landmarks as Jason Welker explained will be my first lesson plan with the students. If you can think of ways to embrace or already have some neat lesson plans or ideas we could collaborate on, let’s hook up, I’ll fly by your city and take a look…virtually of course, the price of real Jet fuel is way too expensive!

Tags: GELessons, Google Earth, Jason Welker, Jeff Utecht, Kimbra Power
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