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Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Geography Through Historical Virtual Tours
Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Geography Through Historical Virtual Tours
Google Tour Builder is an interactive tool teachers can use to facilitate student understanding of connections between historic events, geographic features, governmental and civic rights and duties, and economic concepts. This tools combines editable maps in Google Earth with slides that incorporate information, images, and links to other websites or activities to reinforce the information.
Google Tour Builder is an interactive tool teachers can use to facilitate student understanding of connections between historic events, geographic features, governmental and civic rights and duties, and economic concepts. This tools combines editable maps in Google Earth with slides that incorporate information, images, and links to other websites or activities to reinforce the information.
This tool is a great centerpiece for collaboration between media specialists and teachers. Media specialists can introduce teachers to the tool and help with technical issues that arise while creating a tour. Google Tour Builder also lends itself well to a team teaching approach with teachers and media specialists while working on the unit.
This tool is a great centerpiece for collaboration between media specialists and teachers. Media specialists can introduce teachers to the tool and help with technical issues that arise while creating a tour. Google Tour Builder also lends itself well to a team teaching approach with teachers and media specialists while working on the unit.
Media specialists and teachers can search through the gallery for tours that fit curricular needs or create his or her own tour based on any unit of study. Students can progress through the tour self paced or it can be used for whole group instruction.
Media specialists and teachers can search through the gallery for tours that fit curricular needs or create his or her own tour based on any unit of study. Students can progress through the tour self paced or it can be used for whole group instruction.
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Planning
Planning
- Contact was made with 4th grade Social Studies and Language Arts teacher, and scheduled one week to meet during planning times to plan the activity.
- 1st Planning Meeting: Established viewing and discussing virtual tour, Cornell note taking, and newsletter writing as strategies and learning activities.
- 2nd Planning Meeting: Created time line for activities and tested technology to see which devices worked best with Virtual Tour.
- 3rd Planning Meeting: Located tour in gallery to be used for lesson instead of creating tour from scratch (due to time constraints), viewed several note taking templates and chose the one that works best for students.
- 4th Planning Meeting: Created expectations and rubric for collaborative newsletter students will write.
- 5th Planning Meeting: Finalized plans, locations for lessons, and gathered needed supplies and resources.
The Project
The Project
- This collaborative project will take one week of class time and will summarize the unit on the Revolutionary War.
- Students will view the virtual tour titled The War for Independence by Robert Lake available in the Gallery section of Google Tour Builder.
- Students have been introduced to Cornell Notes, and will use this method for note taking from the virtual tour.
- Students will be placed in groups of 3 to work collaboratively on a project.
- Student groups will use information provided in the virtual touring notes taken to create a newsletter from the perspective of an American colonist using the Plum Newsletter Template in Google Docs.
- Students will present newsletters to the class for the purpose of examining multiple view points and discussion.
Standards Allignment
Standards Allignment
Subpages listed below provide a standards alignment of the project with Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies and Language Arts, AASL 21st Century Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students. Please view all subpages to get a deeper understanding of how the standards work together to create an inquiry based learning experience for students.
Subpages (4): AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Georgia Standards of Excellence 4th Grade Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence: 4th Grade Social Studies ISTE Standards for Students
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