These are the Utah Core Curriculum Standards that my lesson plan will follow:
UEN Standard 2: Students will understand the human and physical characteristics of places and regions.
Objective 1: Interpret place by its human and and physical characteristics.
a. Examine human characteristics, including language, religion, population, political and economic systems, and quality of life.
UEN Standard 4: Students will understand how human activities shape the earth's surface
Objective 1: Analyze the characteristics, distribution and migration of human population's on Earth's surface.
a. investigate how people adapt to their environment
-My idea is to use Google Earth to create a lesson plan for World Geography. It will also be geared towards ESL students, and the objectives of Second Language Acquisition for the teacher to understand the background and culture that the student is coming to class with.
For my lesson plan I will use Google Earth to demonstrate different parts of the world and different cultures we will be discussing: for example Latin America, Europe and Asia. We will talk about different characteristics of each region and as we do so I can show the class on Google Earth exactly what we are talking about.
For the assignment I will have students record a virtual tour on Google Earth showing where they came from and maybe their exact home in their homeland. Students will be able to show unique things about their homeland, for example unique geography, cultural sites, or national monuments. The student will talk about the culture of their homeland, for example the dominant language, religion, political system, etc. Then the student will show on Google Earth the migration pattern to their new home in the U.S., and the student can talk about why they moved, who moved with them, how they have adapted to the new culture, etc. It will be a lesson in discussing both spatial and cultural differences, as well as examining migration patterns and how people adapt.
The "artifact" I will present will be an example of a student-made video tour on Google Earth.
I am still trying to become comfortable with Google Earth because I have never used it before. Some of the tutorials have been helpful but if anyone has any suggestions of good tutorials or tips for using Google Earth that would be great! Any feedback or suggestions would also be gladly accepted :)
Amanda, that's a great idea for a project! Have you tried these tutorials? These were made for IPT 287 students:
ReplyDeletehttp://open.byu.edu/ipt287/general-tools/google-earth/tutorial-google-earth/
Also, for the tour, be sure to have the students (or yourself) put placemarkers for the different stops in the tour so they can just click on the links to go to the places. These tutorials should show how to do that. Good luck!