I’ve created a Google Docs presentation to generate some ideas for using GIS in the classroom. Please get in touch if you’d like to help out. You’ll need to create a Google account first. I’m looking for ideas for both primary and secondary classrooms. Inspiration of course comes from Tom Barrett’s ‘Interesting Ways to..’ series of presentations, while more generic ideas are being collated in Tony Cassidy’s 101 creatively simple ways to teach Geography.
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Hi,
We mapped the residence-locations of all pupils of your school (about 700 perswons) with google earth, We used ms excel for calculations (e.g. mean distance, median distance …) and some free online tools (kml-circle generator, address geocoding …)
I did the project with 14/15 years old pupils (“fünfte Klasse”). you can download a complete powerpoint presentation (version 2003) plus the complete kmz-file from here, in case you are curious:
http://www.rg16.at/~ktrinko/?Downloads
(ALLES GIS: it is in German of course)
Greetings
Kurt
Noel,
we used the path tool in Google Earth when we were looking at site and situation, where students attempted to define the city boundary from physical and human features on GE, accounting for their individual paths.
We also used a combination of GE, streetview and http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/google-earth/osmaps.html when attempting to explain differences in inner city landscapes within a small geographical area. All of the areas were within 3-4 miles of each other, but this overlay is also a brilliant free alternative to things such as anquet fro physical landscapes.
I don’t know if any of these are of any use for your google doc
Kenny