Geo-literacy is a combination of skills and understanding necessary to make decision in the 21st century.



Check out National Geographic education for more information.    
 http://education.nationalgeographic.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out various ways to use Google Earth in the Classroom:



Art:

• Check out Landscapes from pieces of art
• Discover and analysis architecture from around the world
• Investigate the area of famous artist and look at the world around them that help inspire their creativity
• Search for the locations of  art galleries



Social Studies/History

• Identify different types of shelters and describe the environments in which you find them
• Search and identify geographic features
• Search and identify locationjs of specific historical events
• Identify and use Latitude and longitude corrdinates
• Identify places of historical value and create tours demonstrating student knowledge
• Create Geo tweets, students use twitter to share hints about their specific spot trying to be discovered by others
• Import GPS data photos and video from a field trip to create virtual trips for others
• Compare urban and rural areas
• Look for natural resources around the state or nation
• Locate boundaries of towns, cities, regions, and nations
• Use the time zone overlay to show the time zones around the world
• Map birthplaces of inventors, presidents, etc.
• Identify features in the community like buildings, roads, rivers, lakes, and local community, police station, city hall, schools, etc.
• Examine environments and countries and compare how theirs lives and needs may be different
• Students can analysis the slave trade with slave trade routes
• Students can analysis the routes associated with the westward movements
• Research the progress of the human civilization
• Research the growth of cities and the afffect on the natural environment
• Compare and Contrast New York pre & post 9-11
• Students create a tour of countries where USA exports and imports goods  (class groups do many countries and see which import is needed the most, and least)
• Create a tour of the routes of North American Explorers
• Give students a prompt:
• Create a historic tour of The Crusades
• Looking for spices & silks, create tours of the Vikings, English, etc  looking for these treasures....write a diary entries explaining their journey and make connections to your home country and the natural resources that can be taken back hom and what purpose for your detours around the way
• Students collaborate to create the next great city,they develop the buildings and city using google earth and sketch-up

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Science:

• Create a tour of the different biomes
• View tectonic plate shift evidence by examining whole continents
• Create a tour of a distribution of species in an area
• Compare wind farms, oil rigs, and coal mines and the areas around them
• Create a tour of a river system showing its origin and mouth, calculate the difference of altitude between the two,  also make a tour of the area between and mark spots of interest
• What is the weather today in ...........
• Compare weather across the globe
• Create a tour of Breakfast around the world/occupations around the world/ populations around the world, etc.                                              

 

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​Language Arts:

• Locations of books in a Google Lit Trip
• Authors lived their lives here tour
• Create a tour of Shakespearen plays
• Travel around the world with books  (map each book your class reads)





Math:

• Find ways to represent fraction on earth example: parking lot 
• Measure tools  that find distance with the line and path tool
• Use the pyramids to look at volume and solids
• Count cars or pedestrians
• Identify shapes
• Determine area  of real objects 
• Learn about 2D or 3D figures
• Check out these ski slope projects for 7th graders   http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/pribadeneira/view.cfm?subpage=77266







Foreign Languages:

• Students create a virtual drive in the land of their languages origin
• Students give directions to a specific place 
• Students describe land forms or land marks recording their own voices

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BellRingers or other Thoughts:

Where are we today?

 Choose a city and zoom to street level and play 5-10 questions to figure out the name of the city. 

Great way to get students thinking and asking questions.



"Where I went on my summer vacation"

Students create a journal of a trip anywhere in the world



Have students complete a city or country scavenger hunt