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Discussion question: Read this short article (Beyond State Capitals) and share your thoughts on the state and relevance of geography in the curriculum today. After you read through the rest of this presentation, have your thoughts changed at all?
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We use google maps with our heritage project in Social Studies. Students map out where they are from and add a link about themselves to create a classroom map of where everyone came from. Students can then see a visual of where everyone in the class…
Discussion question: What are some of the ways you might employ GPS in your classroom?
In Social Studies GPS would be a great tool in figuring out how to read maps and finding exact locations. We do an activity where the students use GPS to hide eg…
Discussion question: How does the use of GPS/GIS contribute to the development of higher-order thinking skills?
Using GPS/GIS students can think beyond the concrete ideas. Instead of using a paper map in the classroom students can go outside and ar…
What do you see as potential benefits of using e-portfolios for students?
In college we used something like an e-portfolio to keep all of our student teaching experiences in one place on the computer and put together as a professional portfolio to s…
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Streaming video is a means by which people can watch a video via the internet instantly. Streaming video is very effective if you wanted to watch something instantly without having to worry about downloading the video ont…
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