TPACK for Virtual tour plan

Content:

From the Utah Curriculum 4th Grade Social Studies, standard 1, objective 1. After this activity the students will be able to classify major physical geographic attributes of Utah. They will also be able to identify Utah's climate, natural resources, landforms, and regions with the use of geographic tools. Finally, the students will examine the forces at work in creating the physical geography of Utah (e.g. erosion, seismic activity, climate change).

Pedagogy:

• Observing
• Classifying
• Discovery learning
• Group learning

The activity will cover all of these aspects because the students will be most likely, in groups sharing computers, so getting the answers to the questions will be a group effort. Also, they will be observing and classifying the different physical geographic attributes of Utah. With the use of "Geosights of Utah," they will be discovering the answers to the questions about each different physical geographic attribute.

Technology:

The technology used in this activity is accessed with computers and the tool is Google Earth, which can be downloaded for free at: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html