Journal 7: Google Earth
Technology is the use of old ideas and infuse them with new ideas to create new concepts. “Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky.”
http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/649749:Topic:127632
This is “ideal for an organization, upgrade to Pro to access the ultimate research, presentation, and collaboration tool for location-specific information.”
This site has lessons, collaborations and concepts for teachers to use to bring in technology and other aspects in the classroom to advance what only math books and worksheets can provide. By using real world models and scales theory is replaced with a tangible picture, making math more practical to teach using Google Earth.
I would use this tool in any social studies class because on can easily see map and charts of how people lived or migrated. Even why certain battles were fought in one place rather then another. It gives students real life images that makes it seem more real and virtually at the tips of there fingers.
One of the threads talked about Real World Math, with provides activities and lessons from the 5th grade on up. One lesson shows the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. In the lesson students will use Google Earth maps and graphs to measure a distance a Tsunami wave will travel, elapsed time of the wave and the speed of the Tsunami using mathematical properties. http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/2004_Indian_Ocean_Tsunami_Activity.html.
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