With Google Earth completely integrated, Google Maps is able to display satellite images of the location you are viewing. However, Google doesn't stay up in space. With the help of some specially equipped cars, Google brings maps right to your front door.
This is an image of my house. Granted it's several years old, but it is disturbing nonetheless. In fact, there are some areas that have, for various reasons, required Google to remove the images. There are plenty of videos on Youtube illustrating some of the crazy things these camera cars have captured. In this picture, they captured a friend's car parked in our driveway.
Go ahead...give it a try. See what Google found in your front yard.
Well...on to less frightening things:
I looked at a couple of the lesson plans for tonight. The one "How do we rock around the clock" seemed a little thin and I couldn't really see how this form of lesson would work. Then I looked at the one about the Sun and the Moon. This one had quite a bit more information. I can think of several possibilities for using this. Lessons on weather could be done using Google Maps. I certainly see how this could be beneficial as well as entertaining to the children (and the teacher).
Good job overall, but I would have appreciated a little more specificity on why you thought the one application was thin, and some of the specific possibilities you could see for using Maps. In fact there was a lesson plan for weather.
ReplyDeleteI surmise that possibly you were crowded on time from the iMovie project.
Thanks! :-)