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Activity Link |
Description |
Grade |
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Real World Math |
A resource for many math lessons across all grade
levels using the real world to illustrate math concepts.
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Mazes & Labyrinths |
Google Earth tour that focus on the concepts of
geometry and symmetry using aerial imagery of 50 mazes and
labyrinths from around the world.
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5-12 |
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Estimating Distance |
Google Earth lesson using real world imagery to
develop estimation and measurement skills.
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4-8 |
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Complex Area Problems |
Google Earth lesson to practice measuring
distances, finding areas of complex polygons, and solve word
problems involving rates.
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6-8 |
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Creating Pictographs |
Google Earth can be used to create attractive
graphs. Using the variety of the icons available, the students
can relate their data to a certain landmark on Earth for a more
meaningful presentation.
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5-7 |
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Polyhedrons with Sketch-up |
Students construct polyhedrons with Google
Earth's Sketch-up tool that they then examine:
cross-sections, surface area, and volume concepts.
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9-12 |
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Computing with Scientific Notation |
Using Google Earth's measurement tools, students
use imagery to practice scientific notation calculations,
measurement skills, and using the distance formula.
(Worksheet link included)
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7-9 |
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Money Makes the World Go Around |
Crisscrossing the Google Earth globe, students
connect countries' foreign currency exchange rates through a
series of word problems they create and solve. (Worksheet
link included)
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6-8 |
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Choropleth Maps and Population
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Interactive Flash animation lesson exploring
population change over time that helps students put trends into
perspective, gather the right kind of data, and make choropleth
maps that help develop critical thinking skills.
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6-10 |
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$tore Territory: Analyzing Retail Market Areas |
A set of interactive Flash animation scenarios
that allow students to investigate the effect of strategies for
locating franchises. Students experiment with the
variables of: minimizing travel distance, franchise territory
division, maximizing market share, and simulated regions.
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5-12 |
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House Hunter for Area |
A hands-on activity you can do with
fourth-graders to directly apply the concept of area to the
place they knows best – their houses.
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4 |
Stonehenge Geometry
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Stonehenge builders had geometry skills to rival
Pythagoras |
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