|
Volcano Trail Outline: Children find the highest volcanos on each of the seven continents and create a virtual tour to visit each. Ski Mountaineer website has a list of the volcanos together with location information for each. The easiest way to locate them is to switch the Latitude/Logitude grid on (on the view menu) and tick the Volcanos layer. Children can then use the information on the website to find the volcanos. Of course if you want to make the activity more challenging then you could provide less guidance. Children can put placemarkers at each volcano and use the path tool to create a line between each. Alternatively they could take a screen shot of each from the same height or angle to drop into another program to create a tour. Children could take notes on the sorts of clothing and equipment they might need to climb each each, land use around the volcano or shape of each volcano. Local Scavenger Hunt Outline: Children search for features shown on an aerial photograph of the area around school Get children to locate the school on Google Earth. Explain that they need to find as many of the items on the list as they can and put a placemarker to show each. You could use the following list or make up one of your own: a church or other place of worship, a park or football pitch, a row of terraced houses or detached houses, a railway station or bus station, a motorway or main road, a minor road or footpath, a bridge, a lake or pond, a river or canal, a factory or warehouse, an area where there are shops, another place of interest, a place they would like to visit, a place where the environment could be improved. Options are given to encourage children to think in more detail about the feature they have chosen. As an extension children could create a tour of the area by putting a path onto the map. They could try doing the same activity for a contrasting locality to explore similarities and differences between areas. Journey to School Outline: Children measure and compare their journeys to school. Centre the photograph on the school. Get children to trace their routes to school on the map. To measure the length of each route click on Tools and select Measure. This allows you to click and place a trail on the photograph to follow the route. It is not possible to put more than one route on at once but screen shots could be taken so that routes could be compared in another program such as Smart Notebook. To extend the activity children could work out who had the longest journey and whether anything could be done to make it shorter. They could work out how far the teacher travels to school (you might want to be a little inaccurate about your address!). You might also discuss how journeys would be different for children living in a rural area. Global Treasure Hunt Children are given a set of clues to lead them to a location. For example: Go to the country of Peru. What is the name of the stadium in the capital city? Go to the UK. In Liverpool what sort of yellow vehicle would you find on the A5036? Go to France. The Eiffel tower is in Paris on the bank of the River Seine. Can you find it? What is the name of the country that is a large island off the south coast of India? Italy is shaped rather like a boot. Go down to the tip of the toe. Which road would you take if you wanted to drive along the coast? Extension: Children could create their own treasure hunts.
|
