Over the weekend a Tweet from Thomas Petra jogged my memory of a fantastic Google Earth useful resource that he developed years in the past. That useful resource is Actual World Math. And although he stopped updating it a few years in the past, there are nonetheless many Google Earth recordsdata on it that you could obtain to make use of as the idea of actual world math issues. Actual World Math has lesson plans divided into 5 classes; project-based studying, idea classes, measurement classes, exploratory classes, and area classes. The area classes reap the benefits of the Moon, Mars, and Sky views in Google Earth.
Tom Barrett’s Maths Maps is sequence of actions designed to assist elementary college college students develop an understanding of distance, scale, and models of measurement. To finish the actions college students have to make use of the measuring software in Google Maps. In this video I display how you can measure distances within the net browser model of Google Maps.