I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of enjoyable issues with my youngsters. Whereas I’m away the most well-liked posts of the yr to this point will reappear.
Final week I shared instructions for measuring perimeter and space in Google Earth. Doing that’s one in all some ways to include Google Earth into arithmetic classes. Making that video prompted me to make an inventory of the way to make use of Google Earth and Maps (which has comparable measuring instruments) in arithmetic classes.
Here is my record of concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Maps in arithmetic classes. The record is in no specific order apart from how the concepts got here into my thoughts.
- Measuring perimeter of sq., rectangular, and triangular items of land or buildings.
- Measuring and calculating space.
- Calculating land use for farming actions.
- Calculating the world of a crop circle.
- Figuring out touchdown strips the place airplanes of varied sizes can safely land.
- Planning a climbing path and calculating elevation achieve over the path.
- Planning a mountain biking path.
- Calculating the distinction in strolling time in actual life versus what Google Maps calculates.
- Mapping hearth hydrant placement for a metropolis.
- Designing the spacing of homes in a sub growth.
Clearly, I have never crammed within the particulars of all of those concepts. I will try this in a future put up.
