Friday, August 14, 2009

Google Earth

Google Earth is a wonderful learning tool that I am familiar with using, and regularly use within my classroom environment during practical experiences. Google Earth contains a large amount of educational content as it allows students to discover for themselves places throughout the world, along with, extend their knowledge about the natural world, in particular, about maps, the weather, traffic, streets, buildings, terrain and roads (Google Earth, 2009).

I usually use Google Earth throughout activities based upon achieving outcomes in the key learning areas of Science and S.O.S.E, although I strongly believe that Google Earth could be used throughout most of the key learning areas. I think that older students, such as, upper primary and secondary students would find the program more useful than year one students as they are capable of understanding the technical terms used throughout the information displayed. However, authentic learning experiences for all year levels could definitely be created, for example, year one students could take on the role of being an explorer and mark their journey which they are going to take around the world, where as, year five students could compare the weather and traffic in different places.

Reference List:
Google Earth. (2009). Google earth. Retrieved August 14, 2009, from
http://earth.google.com/thanks.html

1 comment:

  1. Hi Krystal,

    Google Earth sure is a wonderful tool. I agree with what your are saying about perhaps this is more suited to higher grades. I feel that perhaps the older you are the deeper engrossed you can be in Google Earth. If you check out my blog you can see I wrote a topic about AB Tutor. I think this would be an awesome program to demonstrate to the class. Thanks. Interesting read :)

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