My Travels Around the World

I watched Darren's tour of religious buildings, Janae's adventure through different biomes and Kelli's exploration of volcanoes. It was a lot of fun!

I think that there are many advantages of using google earth tours. It is a fun and different way to teach about geography and social studies. Actually, now that I think about it, you can use this tool to probably teach any subject. There are so many different activities you can use on here that you could probably hit any content area with a bit of creativity. An advantage is that it adds novelty to your classroom. It can be done in a variety of ways: whole class, small group, pairs, or individual. It can be any amount of time...5, 10, 20 minutes etc...so it can be whenever.

A disadvantage would be you need to take time to teach children about the program. This could be time consuming. Also, there could be a lot of problems having the students use it (lots of ways to mess up or not get it right).