Content Information

The content is standard 2 - Students will develop a sens of self in relation to families and community. Objective 2 - Examine important aspects of the community and culture that strengthen relationships. Indicator B - Compare rural, suburban, and urban communities.

The pedagogy is making observations from the pictures on google earth to create a standard for each type of community. Then to apply that standard to an unknown community.

The technology is Google Earth and its paroramia application.

Week 7

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Salt Lake City, UT	Make observations about the location using the panoramio view. How many cars are there? Are there any yards? What other things do you notice?	Graphic Web panoramio, polygon highlighting city blocks
2. West Jordan, UT	Make observations as above.	Graphic Web panoramio
3. West Weber, UT	Make observations as above.	Graphic Web panoramio
4. Nephi, UT	Using the observations from above, identify if the location is Suburban, Urban, or Rural	Graphic Web panoramio
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	I will include a polygon over the Urban location, otherwise we will use the panoramio view at each location.

ABCs concept video

Here is my video, after some sweat and tears it has successfully posted to teacher tube. Enjoy. It's the ABCs. Also, make note of the awesome music.

ABC Storyboard

Our content areas include standard 1 objective 2, standard 8 objective 6, standard 6 objective 1.

Our pedagogy is an ABC storybook, this fits the content because the students will be developing language and vocabulary while creating a story of common household items.

The technology we will use is photostory, it's a good fit because the students would be able to collect photos and compile them into a book, and while doing this develop their language and vocabulary skills.

TPACK

1. The content area I focused on was teaching students about the seasons. Specifically, it addressed standard 3, Objective 1.

2. We used several pedagogys, they included acquiring data about the inside and outside temperatures and then classifying areas based on the temperatures we found.

3. The technologies we used allowed us to chart the inside and outside temperature with the thermometer and gather temperatures from different areas of the world for the students to classify. It was a good fit because it made the material easy to access and in a format that would be convenient to early learners.

The Tech Savvy Teacher

We are honored to have our classroom nominated to write an article for the Tech Savvy Teacher. We strongly support the use of technology in the classroom. The following is a science experiment conducted in our kindergarten classroom using thermometers and Google Earth.

Kindergarten Standard 3, Objective 1 - Investigate changes in the seasons. We taught children how to identify the seasons by observing known weather and comparing to unknown locations.

This objective for kindergarten requires students to observe and identify the seasons. Our goal to reach this objective was to measure the current temperature in Utah, which are typical of winter, and then measure the temperature inside, and have the children classify different areas of the world's seasons based on the inside and outside temperatures. This lesson would take place after an initial introduction to the seasons and their characteristics.

We used a thermometer to measure the temperature inside our classroom, we found the inside temperature to be 80 degrees F.

(chart of classroom temperature, measuring inside temperature)

After measuring inside the class, we moved outside and measured the temperature of the snow. Outside the temperature of the snow was 30 degrees F.

( measuring snow temperature, chart of outside temperature)

Following a short discussion that linked the temperatures to the seasons, we put together a PowerPoint presentation with weather pictures from all over the world using the Google Earth application. Here are some examples:

Hudson Bay, Canada

San Francisco, CA

Norway

After each student identified the season of the different picture based on its temperature we would classify them as a group. An extension of this activity would be to have the children sort clothing items into what season they would be appropriate for. These activities help the students understand that the world experiences different seasons, in different places, at the same time.