
- 258 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Jumpstart your students' global adventure that starts in their own neighborhoods. Using Google Earth: Bring the World into Your Classroom is an easy-to-implement, easy-to-facilitate teacher resource that helps integrate technology into socials studies, science, mathematics, and English language arts in a creative way. Students in grades 1 and 2 will create their own.kmz folders and fill them with locations that connect their own lives and to important locations and events around the world in order to build cross-curricular connections. Supporting core concepts of STEM instruction, this resource provides differentiated lessons for various learning styles, leveled activities, suggestions for flexible groupings, and is correlated to College and Career Readiness standards.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Credits
- Page 3 - Table of Contents
- Page 4 - Research and Introduction
- Page 6 - Overview of Google Earth
- Page 8 - How to Use This Book
- Page 13 - Google Earth Reference Window
- Page 14 - Preparing for Google Earth Instruction
- Page 23 - Differentiation
- Page 27 - Standards Correlations
- Page 31 - Learning to Fly-Finding Earth
- Page 37 - Navigating Our Planet
- Page 43 - Searching to Find Me
- Page 49 - Exploring Layers
- Page 55 - Seeing Earth-Investigating Natural Features
- Page 61 - Identifying Man-made Features
- Page 67 - Overlaying Abstract Features
- Page 73 - Creating Reference Scales
- Page 79 - Building My World - Placemarking Our Discoveries
- Page 85 - Saving Our Places
- Page 91 - Making Literature Connections
- Page 97 - Building History Connections
- Page 103 - Language Arts-Exploring the Setting of a Book
- Page 109 - Mapping the Setting of a Book
- Page 115 - Touring a Book
- Page 121 - Narrating a Book
- Page 127 - Social Studies-Going Back in Time
- Page 133 - Mapping Columbus
- Page 139 - Coming to America
- Page 145 - Celebrating American Holidays
- Page 151 - Science-Tracking Ocean Animals
- Page 157 - Following the Sun
- Page 163 - Observing Weather
- Page 169 - Analyzing Ice
- Page 175 - Mathematics-Shaping the C
- Page 181 - Drawing Field Patterns
- Page 187 - Measuring Animals
- Page 193 - Graphing Trains
- Page 199 - Interdisciplinary-Exploring the Moon
- Page 205 - Diving Below the Ocean Surface
- Page 211 - Describing Colors on Earth
- Page 217 - Observing Earth at Night
- Page 223 - Appendix A: References Cited
- Page 224 - Appendix B: Answer Key
- Page 230 - Appendix C: Assessment Rubric
- Page 232 - Appendix D: How-to Guide
- Page 239 - Appendix E: Google Earth Skills Matrix
- Page 242 - Appendix F: Recommended Literature
- Page 248 - Appendix G: Glossary of Terms
- Page 251 - Appendix H: Contents of Teacher Resource CD
- Thank You Page