GOOGLE+EARTH

Students were shown how to use Google Earth to support Scientific Notation. Mr. Miller asked the students to guess distances from our school to various distant locations, i.e., Alaska.

I then projected Google Earth and showed the students how to measure in Google Earth. Then, since the number of miles was so large, they turned it into Scientific Notation. The concept of "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" was also explained as I measured because the route of travel from the school to Alaska was much different from the straight line that the ruler created.

Mr. Miller and I plan to use this use of Google Earth into a PBL wherein students will measure spots around the globe and make numerical conversions and solve various geometric and measurement problems.

