Google Earth

Last week was super hectic at school & I didn't get a chance to write so I'm writing two blogs this week to make up for it! For social studies, my first graders are learning about maps & globes. I think it would be awesome to show them Google Earth by using the infocus projector. I've been looking through materials for map-type worksheets and using Google Earth would be a great follow-up activity. We could look up the location of our school and talk about what's located around us. I think they would also be interested to see different parts of the world. I know that I love to Google Earth places around the world, so I'm sure my students would think it was awesome! It's also a good source to look at different landforms. I could even take a screen shot of our school and print off copies. Then we could make a key together and decide what kinds of symbols we could use to describe what's around our school. After I test out this lesson, I will have to write another blog explaining how well (or not so well) it went.