Sunday, February 27, 2011
Midterm Project Ideas
I would like to use Google earth to teach students about geography, more specifically different types of landforms. These landforms would include mountains, valleys, plateaus, plains, hills, and glaciers. This technology goes along with content I want to teach because the students can use Google earth explore what these landforms look like in the real world. It is more beneficial than a picture because the students can see different aspects of the landforms. Some misconceptions I have seen in this content matter is that students believe that the whole world looks like Michigan, which is of course false because there are different types of landforms all over the world.
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I think this is a great idea and kids would really be interested in it and excited to see real pictures, not only what they can see in textbooks. Seeing the images and landforms through Google Earth I believe would be very beneficial for the students and would stick in their minds a lot more than memorizing definitions and pictures out of textbooks.
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