Thing 5c

Free Technology for Teachers offered some ideas on Google Earth Flight Simulator. I've seen students using this before when I wanted them to check out city information or look at geography in the computer lab. What is neat is that you can be exact and check out a specific street or address. This makes the lesson come alive more than just talking about a typical French restaurant. They can actually see the restaurant and what it looks like in the neighborhood. The downside to the Google Earth site is that it's not updated very frequently. The pictures of my house are over a year old. So, this could be used in current events for the "before" pictures of disaster areas, for example.