If you’re looking for a fun way for students to explore rural land patterns and traditional housing styles, here is a set of 5 Illustrated Textbook pages on the topic, […]
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Tag: Google Earth
GAME via Google Earth: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
If you’re craving some nostalgia from the 80’s, or maybe want to introduce global sleuthing to a new generation of kids, then you will be pleased to find Carmen Sandiego […]
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LESSONS and WORKSHEETS: Rural Landscape Patterns & Traditional Folk Housing
Last night students read about rural landscape patterns and traditional housing types. Today in class after reviewing the four types of traditional housing, we viewed Google Earth’s, “This is Home,” […]
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VR: Creating Custom Google Expeditions using Google Tour Creator
Big news! Google just opened up Google Tour Creator, a site that allows users to create custom virtual tours. This will be of great interest to those who don’t want […]
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VR: Testing Virtual Reality in the Classroom
“Resistance is Futile…“ I recently tested the HTC Vive virtual reality system in my World History and Human Geography classrooms, and the results were mixed. But before I tell you […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Location-Contemporary Cartography
Find out why early maps looked so funky, about the art of CARTOGRAPHY (or is it a science?), and how thousands of Google cars, with the help of GPS, are […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Defining a Region-Continental Style
This next page begins breaking down the basic World regions for us. I used the AP Regions as my guide, which you can also find below. I also write about […]
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