Using Sketch Up 5 in combination with Google Earth it’s possible for students to visualize urban management schemes such as the one proposed for Plymouth.
Suitable building sites can be identified in Google Earth and transferred to Sketch Up to be turned into 3D images. They can be exported back into Google Earth and annotations added as placemarks to explain the decisions. It would not be dificult to teach the necessary ICT procedures and the task would call on many geographical skills as well as creativity and Citizenship. Here is an example:
The task is described in detail here.
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