I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of enjoyable issues with my children. While I’m away the most well-liked posts of the 12 months to this point will reappear.
Last 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 a listing of the way to make use of Google Earth and Maps (which has comparable measuring instruments) in arithmetic classes.
Here’s my record of concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Maps in arithmetic classes. The record is in no explicit order aside 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.
- Identifying touchdown strips the place airplanes of varied sizes can safely land.
- Planning a mountaineering 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 improvement.
Obviously, I have not crammed within the particulars of all of those concepts. I’ll do this in a future submit.