All Discussions Tagged 'geography' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T15:41:21Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=geography&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLearning with Google Earthtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-07-05:649749:Topic:8497852012-07-05T17:46:53.879ZThomas Petrahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ThomasPetra
<p>This <em>Classroom 2.0</em><i>: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth</a></p>
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<p>Google Earth is the perfect platform for educators who want to construct progressive learning experiences for their students. It is a rich 21st Century resource for any subject area, full of materials and functionality. More…</p>
<p>This <em>Classroom 2.0</em><i>: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth</a></p>
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<p>Google Earth is the perfect platform for educators who want to construct progressive learning experiences for their students. It is a rich 21st Century resource for any subject area, full of materials and functionality. More than a mapping tool, Google Earth is a vast collection of information where users can view layers of content or add their own. Using its simple tool set, teachers can transform traditional instruction by designing lessons that allow an active investigation of ideas. Students of different learning styles will be able to explore concepts in depth and develop higher-level thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and creativity. Real life activities portrayed in a virtual globe add purpose and context to their learning. Google Earth is the perfect application for project-based learning, cross-curricular units, or exploring global themes.</p>
<p>Open source material, such as those provide by <a href="http://www.googlelittrips.com" target="_blank">Google Lit Trips</a> and <a href="http://www.realworldmath.org/" target="_blank">Real World Math</a>, serve not only as resources for others but as models of inspiration. Teachers of any subject area or grade level can design customized lessons for their students. I hope you take time to read my <em>Classroom 2.0: The Book</em> chapter and consider how you can use Google Earth in your classroom.</p>
<p>Please feel free to add comments and suggestions below. This is the peer review stage of the book and I welcome your feedback.</p>
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<p></p> Geoshare Wiki for Integrating Geography in K-12 Classroomstag:www.classroom20.com,2012-05-30:649749:Topic:8407402012-05-30T22:44:02.027Zt1trusthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/t1trust
<p>Hello,<br></br>I wanted to share a request and a great site from a classmate of mine:</p>
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<pre>I'm creating a geography education wiki called GeoShare (<a href="http://geoshare.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">geoshare.wikispaces.com</a>), that intends to collect resources for teaching geography, GIS, and spatial analysis ideas to K-12 students, particularly lesson material that can be taught in non-geography classes. I've created a few wiki pages to start things off, but if…</pre>
<p>Hello,<br/>I wanted to share a request and a great site from a classmate of mine:</p>
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<pre>I'm creating a geography education wiki called GeoShare (<a href="http://geoshare.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">geoshare.wikispaces.com</a>), that intends to collect resources for teaching geography, GIS, and spatial analysis ideas to K-12 students, particularly lesson material that can be taught in non-geography classes. I've created a few wiki pages to start things off, but if you have some time to look over it, give suggestions, or suggest a webpage to be added, I'd really appreciate it. Or, if you want to create your own wiki page of some source, you'd be my new best friend! So yeah, thank you for having a look. I appreciate your time. <a href="https://geoshare.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">https://geoshare.wikispaces.com/<br/></a></pre>
<pre><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Antonio</font></span></pre>
<pre><br/><<<br/><br/>Please consider adding to his site or using it to integrate geography into your lesson plans. Feel free toshare any feedback about the site in this forum.<br/><br/>Thanks!</pre> FREE iPad2 Apps for Secondary ALL SUBJECT Areastag:www.classroom20.com,2011-11-09:649749:Topic:7731882011-11-09T22:22:42.347ZDenise Stewarthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/DeniseStewart
<p>My school district has just started distributing iPads to instructional coaches to support teachers who are struggling in their classes. As an instructional coach, I was thrilled. </p>
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<p>So my question to all of you who are already using iPads, what sites would you particularly recommend to a coach who must meet the needs of every discipline on the campus? I have found a few such as SHOWME, Dragon speak, MathCube--to name a few, but with each teacher comes a different request. I…</p>
<p>My school district has just started distributing iPads to instructional coaches to support teachers who are struggling in their classes. As an instructional coach, I was thrilled. </p>
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<p>So my question to all of you who are already using iPads, what sites would you particularly recommend to a coach who must meet the needs of every discipline on the campus? I have found a few such as SHOWME, Dragon speak, MathCube--to name a few, but with each teacher comes a different request. I would therefore love to put together a list of apps which come with recommendations from professionals such as yourselves. The tool is quite innovative, but without support for teachers, it will just be another trinket that will gather dust.</p>
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<p>Denise</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ellteacherpros.com">www.ellteacherpros.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com">www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com</a></p> Lesson ideas for geography, fourth gradetag:www.classroom20.com,2011-08-16:649749:Topic:7135872011-08-16T13:32:14.079ZConnie Warnerhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ConnieWarner
<p>Hi, I'm new to Classroom 2.0 and I look forward to connecting here with other educators. I became connected to this site after spending a day with Kevin Honeycutt at a technology workshope in Montana. </p>
<p>I have a question: does anyone have any great ideas for lessons and/or websites to help teach my fourth graders about the continents?</p>
<p>Thanks, Connie</p>
<p>Hi, I'm new to Classroom 2.0 and I look forward to connecting here with other educators. I became connected to this site after spending a day with Kevin Honeycutt at a technology workshope in Montana. </p>
<p>I have a question: does anyone have any great ideas for lessons and/or websites to help teach my fourth graders about the continents?</p>
<p>Thanks, Connie</p> Geography Awareness Week?tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-11-10:649749:Topic:5375052010-11-10T16:49:11.777ZTauniahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Taunia
Curious if teachers are planning anything for Geography Awareness Week next week? National Geographic has a ton of great resources and more info about the week, happening November 14-20:<div><br></br></div>
<div><a href="http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/gaw.html">http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/gaw.html</a></div>
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<div>In case you might be looking for some fun materials plan lessons with, I also thought I'd mention that we've bundled three of our geography rap songs together - all…</div>
Curious if teachers are planning anything for Geography Awareness Week next week? National Geographic has a ton of great resources and more info about the week, happening November 14-20:<div><br/></div>
<div><a href="http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/gaw.html">http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/gaw.html</a></div>
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<div>In case you might be looking for some fun materials plan lessons with, I also thought I'd mention that we've bundled three of our geography rap songs together - all the worksheets and everything:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.educationalrap.com/music/geography-awareness-week">http://www.educationalrap.com/music/geography-awareness-week</a></div>
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<div>Happy to answer any questions or provide more info. In the meantime, enjoy celebrating geography with your students and classes! Would love to hear what educators are doing to celebrate the week....</div> Take students on your own virtual tourstag:www.classroom20.com,2010-08-25:649749:Topic:5005132010-08-25T05:34:07.808ZRicardohttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Ricardo
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/earth_logo.gif"></img><div><b>Google Earth's Tour feature allows anyone to create virtual tours and share them</b>. </div>
<div>One can guide the tour using the software or export them as narrated video. Here's an example: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UdPvA2OjY">continents and oceans</a>. Also useful is the ability to share tours in native files, which means smaller files and full control of tours. Here's an example: …</div>
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/earth_logo.gif"/><div><b>Google Earth's Tour feature allows anyone to create virtual tours and share them</b>. </div>
<div>One can guide the tour using the software or export them as narrated video. Here's an example: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UdPvA2OjY">continents and oceans</a>. Also useful is the ability to share tours in native files, which means smaller files and full control of tours. Here's an example: <a href="http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&url=http://maps.google.com/maps/gx?oe%3Dutf-8%26output%3Dghapi%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fearth.google.com%252Fgallery%252Fkmz%252Fcastles-and-palaces-3d-tour.kmz">3D Castles</a>: </div>
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Hi,<br></br>I teach in a small, private school in Chicago, Illinois. I'm looking for other 2nd grade classes from all over the world to learn about the continents through research, personal experience, and interaction with each other. We are hoping to create a wiki to post facts, pictures, videos, and hopefully, we'll be able to Skype with each other, as well. We are open to other ways of collaborating, ie Wallwisher, Voicethread, Blogs, etc. If you are interested, please sign into the Google…
Hi,<br/>I teach in a small, private school in Chicago, Illinois. I'm looking for other 2nd grade classes from all over the world to learn about the continents through research, personal experience, and interaction with each other. We are hoping to create a wiki to post facts, pictures, videos, and hopefully, we'll be able to Skype with each other, as well. We are open to other ways of collaborating, ie Wallwisher, Voicethread, Blogs, etc. If you are interested, please sign into the Google Spreadsheet that we created. <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/29tlj4m">http://tinyurl.com/29tlj4m</a><br/>Thank you,<br/>Faith<br/></b> Looking for collaboratorstag:www.classroom20.com,2010-06-01:649749:Topic:4748432010-06-01T23:36:40.488ZMiss Scibhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MissScib
<p>Hi I am looking for some help. I am a geography teacher from Sydney Australia. My uear 8 class are studying Globalisation at the moment. I am hoping to start a project where the students either design a poster about themsleves and Australia or respond to the issue of gloablisation. I would then like to have students/classes from around the globe (any age group, although preferbly high school) comment on their work. At the moment I am thinking of either using Voice Thread or…</p>
<p>Hi I am looking for some help. I am a geography teacher from Sydney Australia. My uear 8 class are studying Globalisation at the moment. I am hoping to start a project where the students either design a poster about themsleves and Australia or respond to the issue of gloablisation. I would then like to have students/classes from around the globe (any age group, although preferbly high school) comment on their work. At the moment I am thinking of either using Voice Thread or Slidehare.</p>
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<p>I hope someone can help me out. My class would really get a kick out of it.</p> Mainstream Content Teachers With ELLs--How Can They Be Inspired To More Effectively Meet The Needs Of Their ELLs?tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-04-27:649749:Topic:4664852010-04-27T01:43:23.184ZDenise Stewarthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/DeniseStewart
I just finished attending an inspiring Saturday workshop on meeting the needs of ELLs in grades K-12 content classes (not ELD/ESL ones). The workshop was at Stanford University and it brought in renowned experts in culture, technology, content delivery, academic language, etc . <br></br><br></br>Now, it doesn't take much to get me inspired on such topics, but passing on this excitement to some colleagues is taxing on patience. <br></br><br></br>So my question is this. How can I get "old dogs" to learn new…
I just finished attending an inspiring Saturday workshop on meeting the needs of ELLs in grades K-12 content classes (not ELD/ESL ones). The workshop was at Stanford University and it brought in renowned experts in culture, technology, content delivery, academic language, etc . <br/><br/>Now, it doesn't take much to get me inspired on such topics, but passing on this excitement to some colleagues is taxing on patience. <br/><br/>So my question is this. How can I get "old dogs" to learn new tricks?<br/><br/>Thanks.<br/><br/>Denise<br/><br/><a href="http://www.ellteacherpros.com">www.ellteacherpros.com</a><br/><a href="http://www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com">www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com</a><br/> Survey: Assignment: The World Public TV Online Program Reviewtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-04-23:649749:Topic:4653952010-04-23T16:37:07.382ZMarion Frenchhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MarionFrench
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<p><b>Assignment: The World Program Review Survey: Deadline June 30, 2010</b><br></br> <br></br> <b>Survey Description:</b> WXXI Public Broadcasting is conducting a
national survey of teachers focusing on the usability, content and<br />
resources available from <i>Assignment: The World</i>. The survey is<br />
for educators that would like to sample the program online over the<br />
next two months and provide feedback. The survey is also for educators<br />
that currently use the…</p>
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<p><b>Assignment: The World Program Review Survey: Deadline June 30, 2010</b><br/> <br/>
<b>Survey Description:</b> WXXI Public Broadcasting is conducting a<br />
national survey of teachers focusing on the usability, content and<br />
resources available from <i>Assignment: The World</i>. The survey is<br />
for educators that would like to sample the program online over the<br />
next two months and provide feedback. The survey is also for educators<br />
that currently use the series in their class to give input and feedback<br />
based on their experiences. Producers are looking to improve the<br />
resources of the program and re-tool it to meet teachers’ needs in the<br />
classroom.<br/>
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<b>Series Description:</b> <i>Assignment: The World (ATW)</i> is a<br />
weekly 15-minute news and global issues program targeted at 3rd-8th<br />
grade classrooms. Classrooms respond weekly to important issue<br />
questions which are featured on the show.<br/>
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- 32 15-minute programs, one per week from September until May<br/>
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- Covering topics such as: Current Events, Civics, Geography, History, Science, Global Issues, and MORE!<br/>
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- On Public TV & on the Web: <a href="http://atwonline.org/" target="_blank">http://atwonline.org</a><br/>
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<b>Preview the Series and Give Feedback at:</b> <a href="http://atwonline.org/survey.html" target="_blank">http://atwonline.org/survey.html</a></p>
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<p>I appreciate your taking time to consider participating.</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Marion French</p>
<p>WXXI Public Broadcasting</p>
<p>Educational Outreach Center</p>
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