Content: It coordinates with the 3rd grade Social Studies core curriculum:
Standard 1: (Students will understand how geography influences community location and development)
Objective 2: (Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and how other communities have modified the environment.),
Section a: (Describe the major world ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland).)
I thought that this would be an interesting topic to use in Google Earth because there are many articles and connections to people's videos and pictures. It also gives students the opportunity to look at the size of mountains, and the makeup of the wetlands or a desert.
Pedagogy: This is the opportunity of students to use guided discovery learning, and to learn from outside sources like the internet and videos. This fits well with the content because it can give the opportunity for discovery and allowing the content to come alive. It can also connect to previous schemas of the student's if they have visited some of the places that are marked.
Technology: The technology that I'm using are things like Wikipedia, YouTube, websites, and pictures that help to demonstrate the differences in the different biomes. This gives students the opportunity to explore the ideas and areas on their own, and to build their knowledge of biomes, and technology.
This is the table of the information that will be covered:
| Location | Activity | Google Earth Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1) Desert - Mojave Desert | Look at this picture of the Kelso Dunes in California's Death Valley Desert, a part of the Mojave Desert. Watch the connected video to the path, and read the information on this website http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/mojave_desert.htm on the Mojave Desert and Desert Biomes. Find 3 facts that you didn't know before about deserts. | Path, pictures, wikipedia |
| 2) Mountain - Mount Timpanogos | Read the wikipedia article about Mt. Timpanogos and find 3 facts that you did not know. | Photos and Wikipedia pages, Path |
| 3) Plains - South Dakota | Watch the video and look at the article about the plains of South Dakota and find 3 facts in each part about the plains that you did not know about farming on the plains of America. | Video, National Geographic, Path |
| 4) Wetlands - Florida Everglades | Watch the video marked that takes you on a boat ride through the Everglades, and then read the short paragraph about the Everglades National Park. Last, look at some of the photos on the Everglades National Park website that shows the pictures of this area. What are 3 animals you think would be found in a wetlands area such as the Floridian Everglades? | Path, You tube video, website |
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