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http://www.google.com/earth/
Imagine: Teaching a lesson on immigration, and having the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island at your finger tips!
- No fund raising
- No bus trips
All through technology with:
http://www.google.com/earth/
Google Earth: Allows you to visit any location in the world simply by entering a location name and hitting “enter”, through this program you can see both aerial and street views of any location!
Standards:
Third Grade Math: 3.N.BT: 2. Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Third Grade Math: 3.MD: 1.Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
Third Grade Social Studies: Geography: 7.Systems of transportation and communication move people, products and ideas from place to place.
Third Grade Social Studies: Geography:8.Communities may include diverse cultural groups.
Classroom Ideas:
Images taken from Google Earth (inspiration for lesson):
The Statue of Liberty:
Street View:
Ellis Island:
Street View:
Immigration
Using the above standards I would create a unit about Immigration.
- We could begin by discussing immigration and the many places people came to the U.S. from as well as how they arrived here.
- Using Google Earth to view things such as the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Discuss what these symbols meant for immigrants, how they felt seeing these things for the first time.
- Together we could then calculate how far various groups of people traveled to arrive to the Statue of Liberty, how far the Statue of Liberty is from Ellis Island, how old these monuments are, or even how long the journey was from other countries to the United States.
Google Earth could be used for many other subjects as well such as:
- Exploring different climates and ecosystems
- Looking at other cultures
- Explore other landmarks
- Discussing rural vs. urban
- Looking at economic statuses of other countries
- Learning science terms (mountain, volcano, forest etc.)
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Unpack those survival kits and get busy!!
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Google title & Hello, Earth: http://www.google.com/earth/
Google Earth Screen Shots: Google Earth Downloaded Program
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