http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5th-grade-amazing-race-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5th-grade-amazing-race-project Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5th-grade-amazing-race-project/#comment-1197 Computers & 21C Eduk8n » The Amazing Race Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:52:46 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=315#comment-1197 [...] If you read my “About me” page, you would have noticed that I am interested in using Google Earth in my teaching.  As a Mathematics teacher, so far it has been limited to where certain Mathematicians lived, worked etc.  Lots of ideas for other people’s classes that I’ll share one day as I continue to create new blog entries. But today, I read Jeff Utecht’s blog and how his Grade 5 class has made a fun and exciting project based on “The Amazing Race”.  As Jeff wrote: Basically the 5th grade teachers wanted to do an Amazing Race theme and have the students plot on a map 7 different countries they wanted to visit. The students then had to research the different countries and find facts about them. Then they had to choose two cities within each country to have their ‘contestents’ visit within those countries. [...] [...] If you read my “About me” page, you would have noticed that I am interested in using Google Earth in my teaching.  As a Mathematics teacher, so far it has been limited to where certain Mathematicians lived, worked etc.  Lots of ideas for other people’s classes that I’ll share one day as I continue to create new blog entries. But today, I read Jeff Utecht’s blog and how his Grade 5 class has made a fun and exciting project based on “The Amazing Race”.  As Jeff wrote: Basically the 5th grade teachers wanted to do an Amazing Race theme and have the students plot on a map 7 different countries they wanted to visit. The students then had to research the different countries and find facts about them. Then they had to choose two cities within each country to have their ‘contestents’ visit within those countries. [...]

]]> http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5th-grade-amazing-race-project/#comment-1196 Joseph Papaleo Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:14:19 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=315#comment-1196 What a fantastic idea! I've been keen on using Google Earth in my classes, but I thought it may have been fairly limited in secondary Maths education. I'll have to revisit this and find a way to better implement Google Earth. What a fantastic idea! I’ve been keen on using Google Earth in my classes, but I thought it may have been fairly limited in secondary Maths education. I’ll have to revisit this and find a way to better implement Google Earth.

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