
- 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 3-5 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 22 - Differentiation
- Page 25 - Standards Correlations
- Page 31 - Learning to Fly-Flying and Finding Earth
- Page 37 - Searching to Find Me
- Page 43 - Saving Your Place
- Page 49 - Exploring with Layers
- Page 55 - Seeing Earth-Identifying Artificial Features
- Page 61 - Investigating Natural Features
- Page 67 - Overlaying Abstract Features
- Page 73 - Creating Reference Scales
- Page 79 - Building My World-Sorting Our Folders
- Page 85 - Following Our Family Trees
- Page 91 - Making Literature Connections
- Page 97 - Building History Connections
- Page 103 - Language Arts-Mapping the Plot of a Book
- Page 109 - Following the Path of a Book
- Page 115 - Touring a Book
- Page 121 - Creating a Book Report
- Page 127 - Social Studies-Going Back in Time
- Page 133 - Following Explorers
- Page 139 - Mapping History
- Page 145 - Tracking the News
- Page 151 - Science-Understanding the Water Cycle
- Page 157 - Discovering Forces of Change
- Page 163 - Shading the Earth
- Page 169 - Using Energy
- Page 175 - Building a Capital
- Page 181 - Estimating Deforestation
- Page 187 - Measuring America
- Page 193 - Designing Crops
- Page 199 - Beyond Earth-Exploring Space
- Page 205 - Diving Into the Ocean
- Page 211 - Imagining Places
- Page 217 - Drawing on Earth
- 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 243 - Appendix F: Recommended Literature
- Page 247 - Appendix G: Glossary of Terms
- Page 250 - Appendix H: Contents of Teacher Resource CD
- Thank You Page