I’ve extensively revised and updated my Google Earth based lesson on wind energy:
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Not the best week for Geography with the media and Ofsted doing their very best to ignore some of the tremendous progress that has been made over the past year, for example the revisions to the national curriculum, and the Action Plan.
I was cheered up by this example of student work:
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I’ve completed a new Google Earth based lesson which is part of a sequence of activities on surfing and climate change that will be announced later in the year. I’d like to get some feedback on this one though.
The case study is based on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia
source: Wikipedia
The lesson gets students to create maps of sea level change which are then used to assess the likely impact on the region.
The lesson plan can be found at Juicy Geography: Modelling Sea Level Change
I have written up a new Google Earth teaching idea that combines a study of the modern classic Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, with an investigation of Svalbard, one of the settings for the book. The book is published in the USA as The Golden Compass.
source: Wikipedia
Students act as location-scouts, examining the terrain in Google Earth and adding placemarks to indicate where they would film the various action sequences.
Example outcome:
download Google Earth placemark
The film version of the book entitled The Golden Compass, is in production. There is an official site for the film.
Following a post on my Google Earth blog, I reflected that it would be fun to give students named geographical features and get them to find a representative image which they process using the method described by the Artwork Earth post by S. Fjalar
I put togther a quick example gallery, using the first four terms that came to mind:
I made the above images very quickly using the first four words that sprang to mind. The exercise I envisage is more explicitly geographical than the Artwork Earth images. Elusive images (such as the barchan dune) could be given to students with better spatial understanding, therefore differentiating the exercise. The results could make a really good display, or used as a visual glossary of key terms.
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