Google Earth

Google Earth is an amazing program that allows users to view any location anywhere in the world. When applied in the learning context, Google Earth has the ability to change abstract concepts to real-life, concrete concepts. It’s has the ability to transform learning into an engaging, interactive, and collaborative experience for everyone involved. The advantages of using this program in an educational context are abundant.

Google Earth is a free to download program, that has so many exciting and useful features. You can view any location in the world, look at maps, streets, find your house, school, or local shop.

To implement this program in the learning context you could have students complete a treasure hunt using compass directions, distances, and lattitude and longitude marks. You could have students measure distances between locations, or look up geographically famous landmarks. The list is endless and the outcomes associated with using such a tool are outstanding. By creating real-life representations, the knowledge to be learnt becomes so much more meanginful to students, increasing engagement levels, and heightening learning outcomes. An example of implementing Google Earth into the learning context can be viewed at my Weebly Website at the following address; http://leahfriend.weebly.com/google-earth-lesson-plan.html