Name
Our city from above
Topic
Science
Learning time
1 hour and 40 minutes
Designed time
2 hours and 25 minutes
Size of class
21
Description
Children learn about our city from above by using google earth,zee maps
Aims
keyboard familiarisation, mouse control skills, writing practice, learn how to seach, save and print images,have fun
Outcomes
Evaluation
Editor
Evi
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INTRODUCTION
80 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    21
    0
    (Firstly we use the globe, World, European and Greek map) Imagine you travel to the moon in order to watch the earth from there. Can you see our continent? Can you see our country, town?
  • Practice
    20
    2
    1
    We open google earth. Students experimenting with arrows, zooming, searching, clicking and dragging , with writing the names of their continent, country and town.
  • Investigate
    20
    2
    0
    We open a search machine. Students write the name of the Earth, Europe, Greece, Katerini and learn how to write these words, how to search images, how to save them and how to print them.
  • Discuss
    20
    2
    0
    We open zeemap and practice with zooming. What do we see?
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HOMEWORK
20 minutes)
  • Collaborate
    10
    1
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    The class is divided into four groups. Each group is assigned to work on a different part of the project. A group must search at home and find pictures of earth from above. Another group to find pictures of some countries of our continent. The other group to find pictures from some cities of our country and the last group to find pictures from our city. All pictures are from above. They print their pictures and bring them to school
  • Produce
    10
    1
    0
    Children practice in google earth at home, in searching, saving and printing images in order to find the pictures for their group.
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PRESENTATION
45 minutes)
  • Collaborate
    5
    5
    0
    Each group present its work. They open google earth and they show where these places are. Finally all groups put their pictures in order from higher to lower places.
  • Practice
    20
    5
    0
    With children's pictures make puzzles in Jigsawplanet. Children play( drag and drop practice) and have fun.
  • Discuss
    20
    21
    0
    We open zeemap. We start from a remote shot and by pressing the + we come closer and closer until we see our city. Each student add a marker on it.(his name and city's name writing practice). What have we learned so far? What are our impressions? How our city fis in the wider world?
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